Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:30:52 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: ben@timing.com Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libregex library Message-ID: <20041117.173052.74691441.imp@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> References: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com>
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> 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
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