Brian F. Feldman wrote: > 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... >
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
