Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:05:42 -0600 From: GB Clark II <gclarkii@vsservices.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The alternate FPUEMU (was: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD))) Message-ID: <01121711054200.65128@prime.vsservices.com> In-Reply-To: <3C1DDB26.62969FFB@mindspring.com> References: <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011217111835.A43375@tisys.org> <3C1DDB26.62969FFB@mindspring.com>
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On Monday 17 December 2001 05:46, Terry Lambert wrote:
--SNIP--
>
> The GNU FPU emulator is much less useful (and much less used)
> because of the usefully equivalent BSD version that is the
> default, and because of most modern hardware, wigth the exception
> of embedded systems, coming with FPU hardware already installed.
--SNIP--
Yes, for modern hardware it is of little concern, however,
please note that the "GNU" FPU is not actually under the GPL! Back in 1994 I
had dug this thing up (it was the at time the default linux emulator) because
I wanted to run ghostscript on a 386 and the our regular emulator (and libm)
would not run it with faults. That is also why the sun libm was brought in.
After a little help from David Greenman to track down a kernel conflict it
was imported.
It is under a modified license from the copyright holder.
Source only distributions of it have NO chance of infecting the BSD code.
And even binary distributions are not a problem if the source code is
available.
GB
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