From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 15:41:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD6814C89; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18343.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.23]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA17458; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:43:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA47234; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:43:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:43:26 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Steve Kargl , Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libcompat proposition Message-ID: <19990812184326.C44972@mad> References: <199908121659.JAA26170@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:21:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:21:11PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > I don't care if most of the > directories called "gnu" in the current tree contain GPLd code. How I had to read your message about 4 or 5 times before I realized that "Oh, the ``gnu'' in the directory name doesn't mean it's GPL'd code". And that was cognition time with context...without my conclusion would have been reverse and erroneous. src/lib/libgnucompat seems to be the best suggestion so far. I wonder where the line between libgnucompat and libfreebsdextension is, though. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message