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Date:      Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:13:40 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) 
Message-ID:  <83098.967274020@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2000 06:02:15 %2B0200." <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net> 

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In message <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net>, Farid Hajji writes:
>Hello,
>
>[please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks]
>
>are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near
>or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6)
>some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too.

Only if glibc is released under a BSD license *could* this happen, and
in that case it would still be up to an actual comparison of the
code.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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