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[Bug manual/13792] Which license applies to the code examples in the manual?
- From: "roland at gnu dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:52:19 +0000
- Subject: [Bug manual/13792] Which license applies to the code examples in the manual?
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13792
--- Comment #1 from Roland McGrath <roland at gnu dot org> 2012-03-02 23:52:19 UTC ---
This came up a few years ago, but I don't think we ever did anything about it.
The whole manual is under the GFDL and thus so are the code samples inside it.
The sizable examples are maintained as plain C source files in the source tree.
So we could easily release those separately under the GPL.
The timeval_subtract function you asked about was not in such a file, but I've
just moved it into one.
We can look into making a separate package of these source files, where they
would be under the GPL.
Note, however, that the functionality you are looking for is also implemented
by the timersub macro in <sys/time.h> (where it is under the LGPL as usual).
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