Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> writes: > Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:41:25PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: >>> Apart from the lack of wait4, libgo on IRIX 6.5 contained an undefined >>> reference to strerror_r. This patch provides a replacement, based on >>> gnulib/lib/strerror_r.c, but massively simplified. >> >> gnulib strerror_r.c is GPLv3+ licensed, you can't just relicense it >> as BSD. > >>From my understanding, this is only an issue if the code is actually > copyrightable, i.e. the idea can reasonably expressed in different > ways. I doubt that for the case at hand, but am not certain.
I think we should just have Go code that calls strerror anyhow. There's no reason to drop into C here. I'll get to that at some point if nobody else does. Ian
