On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <pine.bsf.4.10.9908112337400.81521-100...@janus.syracuse.net>
> "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...
>
> Warner
>
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