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Could someone summarize what exactly the implications are of the exception? It seems that it is a link-time firewall for any GPL viral behaviour? As long as you're on the other side of the linker you can do anything, including embed a statically linked version in a proprietary application?

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My guess would be that this allows developers to distribute applications on Apple's App Store without much of a headache, where otherwise the user has no (LGPL-guaranteed) way to swap out libraries otherwise. IANAL, and haven't spent any significant research on this fwiw.

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