[self-follow-up] At 2023-06-03T09:47:13-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > On the other hand, many years ago when I stopped merely listening to > what everybody said about the FSF, and started digging into the > copyright details of various GNU packages, I found more flexibility > there than I had been led to expect--even around the year 2000, when > the floor was still slick with blood spilled over the EGCS fork, the > EGLIBC fork, and the Lucid Emacs fork.
My history got a little muddled here. The EGLIBC fork came later.[1] And, to put it colorfully, it was much more a reaction to Ulrich Drepper's iron fist than RMS's. (Whatever one thinks of his management style, Drepper's papers on memory[2] and dynamic shared objects (DSOs; popularly, "shared libraries")[3] are well worth a systems programmer's attention.) Regards, Branden [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/333755/ [2] https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf [3] https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
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