From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 25 21:16:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F04A37B42C; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA59197; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:16:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Farid Hajji Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > > > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > > or medium future? > > I think I can safely say: > > "No." To be slightly less glib[c]: Linking a FreeBSD system against glibc would cause every userland binary on such a system to become "infected" by the GPL, resulting in obvious chaos and pandemonium :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message