Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:54:28 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: RHS Linux User <dicen@hooked.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do about the 2.0 GNU libc? Message-ID: <32EBE0A4.3F54BC7E@whistle.com> References: <199701262201.OAA08317@root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > > >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). > Gnu libc is LGPL'd of course, which has much lighter restrictions.. (dont ha ve to do all the source redistribution stuff for linked binaries etc.) > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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