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Subject: Re: What to do about the 2.0 GNU libc? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:01:12 -0800
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>I must appologize for my past posts to this mail list. I now see that
>freebsd is the way it is for a reason. Also the handling of ppp
>connections in linux and most other OS's really sucks. FreeBSD has the
>best implimentation I have ever seen.
>
>I am curious about the up and comming GNU 2.0 libc. Since the BSD's have
>their own libc will you be replacing yours with the GNU one? Not that I
>like GNU to much (it seams to be becomming the Microsoft of the free
>software world) but it would save a lot of developement time if you
>didn't have to worry about your own library. Since this the GNU libc
>will be used by Linux it would be hard to go wrong. FreeBSD would be
>using the same libc are it's chief competitor. FreeBSD would then only
>have the userland commands to deal with, since Linux of course has GNU
>maintaining those. I hate GNU binutils.

   No, the GNU libc is GPL'd which would cause distribution restrictions
for everything that is linked with it. Unlike GNU, we actually encourage
commercial re-use of FreeBSD code (in embedded systems, for example).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project