From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 21:28:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4C914D27 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04679; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:28:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:28:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Steve Kargl , Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libcompat proposition In-Reply-To: <19990812184326.C44972@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > 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. I like my previous idea of libcompat/fsf, unless for some reason we want libcompat only for BSD compatibility, in which case it will probably never be changing... After reading what Warner had to say, I am in agreement now that gnu should not be used. And perhaps a TRULY free libiberty would be nice... > > > -- > This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message