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Re: libgen: basename and dirname [PATCH]


On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
>On Apr 8, 2005 10:51 AM, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
>>I realize it is a pain, but it could be a whole lot worse if we forced
>>everyone to sign a permission form like the FSF does.
>>
>>Regards,
>
>It's not a problem.  I understand the purpose of copyrights and
>licenses.  Here's the revised patch.  I stole libgen.h from
>winsup/cygwin/include/libgen.h..

It is rather ironic to include a statement of understanding of copyrights
and licenses and the word "stole" in the same paragraph.

Did you happen to notice the copyright you included below?  Please find
some other source for this header file.  I would prefer not to put cygwin
copyrighted material in newlib.

cgf

>diff -u /dev/null libc/include/libgen.h
>--- /dev/null	2005-04-04 21:44:30.000000000 -0700
>+++ libc/include/libgen.h	2005-04-08 10:12:06.000000000 -0700
>@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
>+/* libgen.h
>+
>+   Copyright 2005 Red Hat, Inc.
>+
>+This file is part of Cygwin.
>+
>+This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the
>+Cygwin license.  Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for
>+details. */
>+
>+#ifndef _LIBGEN_H
>+#define _LIBGEN_H
>+
>+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
>+
>+__BEGIN_DECLS
>+
>+extern char *basename (char *path);
>+extern char *dirname (char *path);
>+
>+__END_DECLS
>+
>+#endif /* _LIBGEN_H */


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