Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian F.
>Feldman" writes:
> > : What do you all think about growing a gnu subdirectory in src/lib/libcompat?
> > : Things like a getopt_long implementation (yes, if it will be accepted,
> > : I am volunteering to write it...) would go there, and all sorts of lame
> > : GNU libc cruft that we can try to be more compatible with.
> >
> > src/gnu/lib/libgnucompat
> >
> > might be better if is was GPL code. We've been trying to keep GPL'd
> > code walled off from other code in the system.
>
> I'd be rewriting the code to make it freed, and put it in libcompat/gnu. I
> wouldn't be taking encumbered code to put in a standard library that would
> normally be free...
>
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.
--
Steve
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