Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libcompat proposition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121122040.90630-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199908120511.XAA02041@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908112337400.81521-100000@janus.syracuse.net> "Brian F. Feldman" writes:
> : What do you all think about growing a gnu subdirectory in src/lib/libcompat?
> : Things like a getopt_long implementation (yes, if it will be accepted,
> : I am volunteering to write it...) would go there, and all sorts of lame
> : GNU libc cruft that we can try to be more compatible with.
>
> src/gnu/lib/libgnucompat
>
> might be better if is was GPL code. We've been trying to keep GPL'd
> code walled off from other code in the system.
I'd be rewriting the code to make it freed, and put it in libcompat/gnu. I
wouldn't be taking encumbered code to put in a standard library that would
normally be free...
>
> Warner
>
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