Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:43:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: green@FreeBSD.ORG (Brian F. Feldman), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libcompat proposition Message-ID: <199908121643.KAA04759@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:32:13 PDT." <199908121632.JAA26032@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <199908121632.JAA26032@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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In message <199908121632.JAA26032@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Steve Kargl writes: : If you're writing unencumbered code, placing it under : libcompat/gnu may lead to confusion because all other : directory paths containing gnu contain GPL'd code. : Just stick it into libcompat. Or libiberty :-) That way we can have a GPL-free libiberty, which would be something that many people would want. It would also force the FSF to move more of their code from GPL to LGPL since it is stallman's policy to release things under the LGPL when there are alternative interfaces available. Although the recent hacks by tchrist@perl.com to generically wrap any library in rcp calls so that the progrma using the library doesn't have any GPL tainted code compiled into its address space might change that.... I hate the GPL. It has too many different interpretations. Look at the currentsituation with Linux: Linus says loadable drivers in Linux aren't covered by the GPL, while Stallman insists that they are. Its interpretation is open to too many variables :-(. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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