Re:mold - The (really) fast linker
by MaxBarraclough on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:29PM
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This level of detail is incidental to my point, hence roughly speaking. Even
the GNU folks summarise copyleft essentially as I have. [0]
Also, your account of copyleft is still incorrect. It's true of the GPLv2 and
GPLv3 licences but not true of all copyleft licences. The AGPLv3 licence, which
is the one relevant here, doesn't apply only on distribution.
edit I think I was mistaken in putting propagate to code that is input to the linker, though. As lokar's comment points out, it's instead about the output of the linker.
Also, your account of copyleft is still incorrect. It's true of the GPLv2 and GPLv3 licences but not true of all copyleft licences. The AGPLv3 licence, which is the one relevant here, doesn't apply only on distribution.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html
edit I think I was mistaken in putting propagate to code that is input to the linker, though. As lokar's comment points out, it's instead about the output of the linker.