Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Julian Mehnle dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100]: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as >> > replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not >> > that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement >> > of glibc on Linux would be a lot of work and so far none of the >> > alternative libc projects had tried to pull that off. >> >> Why would anyone want to replace GLIBC in the first place? To get rid of >> "GNU" in "GNU/Linux"? > > Maintainability? Many people (not me, I would lack that level of > technical skills) have pointed out that glibc's code is a mess. > > Ability to distribute under another license? Yes, it might not be a > priority in Debian (we are, after all, pro-GPL), but many people would > like having a BSD-style libc for Linux...
The glibc is LGPLed, not GPLed. If even LGPL is not enough for someone, I'm not sure he's looking to contribute to Free Software development. <http://www.gnu.org/directory/glibc.html> -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
