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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: libcompat proposition
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121122040.90630-100000@janus.syracuse.net> from "Brian F. Feldman" at "Aug 12, 1999 11:22:53 am"
To: green@FreeBSD.ORG (Brian F. Feldman)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:32:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 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...
> 

If you're writing unencumbered code, placing it under
libcompat/gnu may lead to confusion because all other
directory paths containing gnu contain GPL'd code.
Just stick it into libcompat.

-- 
Steve


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