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[Bug libc/17941] Propose C Metaprogramming-based qsort as GNU extension


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17941

--- Comment #4 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Daniel Santos from comment #2)
> > License? Size?
> 
> I do GPL3 whenever at all possible. Some of what I have in this project is
> GPL2 having been borrowed from the Linux kernel. However, much of it is my
> own property as they were my commits, so I can reuse them anywhere I want.
> :) (not that I intend to stop working on the kernel)

This is a serious problem for glibc. We use LGPLv2, and unfortunately users in
the community expect that license, and we will likely never move from that
position. Are you interested and able to relicense as LGPLv2?

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