From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 18 12:22:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from primus.vsservices.com (primus.vsservices.com [63.66.136.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741CE37B428; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from prime.vsservices.com (conr-adsl-dhcp-26-38.txucom.net [209.34.26.38]) by primus.vsservices.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBIKM3C34974; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gclarkii@vsservices.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: GB Clark II To: Brett Glass , John Baldwin Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:22:03 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Craig Harding , Terry Lambert References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218124204.02812700@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218125508.00d9b100@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218125508.00d9b100@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0112181422030A.65128@prime.vsservices.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday 18 December 2001 13:56, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:52 PM 12/18/2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >Actually, no, the kernel doesn't know about loading the math emulator. > > Not to mention that we have two of them. > > I was referring to some of the other code, including ext2fs. > > The GPLed math emulator is no longer needed at all, because the > BSD-licensed one is quite good. The GPLed one should be scrubbed from > the tree as it is no longer useful and is extra work to maintain (if it > is being maintained at all). > > --Brett > Brett, Did you read my earlier message? The math emualtor is NOT under the GPL! It has a restrictive license in that it can only be used under FreeBSD/NetBSD and 386BSD, has an advertising clause and requires distribution of the source of the emulator. Nothing else. The reason it was added (by me) was that in 1994 the original emulator and the original libm (which why we also have the sun libm) could not pass all of the floating point tests in the major FP test suits. I wanted to run ghostscript on a 386 and could not do it, so I found out a way to do so. Has the way that FP is done changed in the last 7 years? GB -- GB Clark II | Roaming FreeBSD Admin gclarkii@VSServices.COM | General Geek CTHULU for President - Why choose the lesser of two evils? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message