glib dependency for the X Server

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:15:59 +0200 Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com>
babbled:

> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 18:46 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> > Erwin Rol wrote:
> > > 
> > > What about the GNU C-library, that is LGPL. Does that make it
> > > "unacceptable" for you to use Xorg on Linux ?
> > 
> > The C lib is mostly generic functionality that can be easily
> > found from other sources and under various licences. Glib is
> > a one-off specific api, which would force the one and only
> > Glib to be required.
> 
> Well one could always rewrite glib (or the parts that would be needed)
> if one really needs a completely closed source system which includes
> Xorg :-)

one could. my point was that glib is different to libc - you can't equate them
directly in this way.

> - Erwin
> 
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