Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code

[Per Abrahamsen]

Chris Jefferson <caj@cs.york.ac.uk> writes:

> Sorry for the questions, but I'm wondering exactly where the line
> between "things that come with operating system / compiler" and
> "external libraries" should be drawn.

It is far from clear. The FSF at one time claimed that Motif was such
a library, but KDE wasn't.

I'm pretty sure direct X is on the safe side, even if new versions of
direct X are also made available unbundled for older OS'es, they tend
to be bundled with any new OS release.