From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 16:17:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4363616A4D6 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:17:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E5343E3A for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:55:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 27F8E5311; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:55:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 2D3DB530A; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:55:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 68313B85E; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:55:13 +0100 (CET) To: Ben Mesander References: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:55:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> (Ben Mesander's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:37:34 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.64 cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libregex library X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:17:59 -0000 Ben Mesander 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