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    [–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    As far as I know link systemcalls are set up to look in the working directory first

    Not so much but that's easily fixed with an export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.

    Why would statically compiling it violate the GPL?

    Because you've created something that contains compiled GPL code that can't be untangled or swapped out. The licence for the Gnu C Compiler is basically designed so you can't use it to build closed source software. Its a deal with a communist devil. If you want to build a binary that contains GPL code (which is what glibc is) then you have to make everything in that binary licensed under a GPL compatible license. That's what the whole "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches" quote from Steve Balmer was in aid of. And he was correct and this was literally the system operating as intended.

    Dynamic linking is some looney tunes ass "see, technically not violating the GPL" shit that corporations use to get around this.

    [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Oh, so bundling it and adding that env will work.

    [–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    From a technical standpoint, yes. From a legal standpoint:

    If you dynamically link against an LGPLed library already present on the user's computer, you need not convey the library's source

    Welcome to "what did you think was going to happen if you told for profit corporations that if they want to distribute a library in a bundle they also have to provide the source code but if they just provide it linked against an ancient version that nobody will be using in 5 years and don't even tell you which one they're 100% in compliance"?

    Could they? yes. Will they? probably not, that takes too much work.

    This is why steam's own linux soldier runtime environment (Which is availible from the same dropdown as proton) had to become a thing.

    [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Also, your OS will tell you which library it can't find.

    [–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

    as long as you run it from the command line. On my system at least if there's a library missing it will just silently fail to launch. I love linux but it does not make it easy