Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:55:13 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libregex library Message-ID: <xzpbrdrw61q.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> (Ben Mesander's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:37:34 -0700") References: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com>
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Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> writes: > It's come to my attention that libregex on FreeBSD is GPL'd - not > LGPL'd. I think it rather violates the POLA that anything that uses > regex_t and is compiled on FreeBSD ends up being covered by the terms > of the GPL. That's why it's called lib*gnu*regex. It is only used by other GPL software in the tree (specifically, cvs, grep and diff) > Has there been any thought given to moving to the modified Henry > Spencer regex library used in NetBSD & OpenBSD's libc? des@dwp ~% head -3 /usr/src/lib/libc/regex/COPYRIGHT Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Henry Spencer. All rights reserved. This software is not subject to any license of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company or of the Regents of the University of California. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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