From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 8:23:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97105157CA for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA91462; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:22:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libcompat proposition In-Reply-To: <199908120511.XAA02041@harmony.village.org> 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 Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message "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 > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message