From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 00:35:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B217016A517 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:35:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FF043D45 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:34:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAI0Uqd7059453; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:30:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:30:52 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20041117.173052.74691441.imp@harmony.village.org> To: ben@timing.com From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> References: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libregex library X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:35:15 -0000 > It's come to my attention that libregex on FreeBSD is GPL'd - not > LGPL'd. I think it rather violates the POLA that anything that uses > regex_t and is compiled on FreeBSD ends up being covered by the terms > of the GPL. > > Has there been any thought given to moving to the modified Henry > Spencer regex library used in NetBSD & OpenBSD's libc? I'm happy and willing to do te leg work to get this work into FreeBSD, so don't let that be an argument against this. I'll work with Ben to move forward with this integration if I don't hear anything to the contrary... Warner