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On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:37 -0700, Ben Mesander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   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?

What do you think src/lib/libc/regex is?


Tim