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Re: glibc licensing change patches
- To: Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: glibc licensing change patches
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 18:27:24 +0200
- Cc: libcalpha <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <B769DBD4.683E%bmark@us.ibm.com>
Mark Brown <bmark@us.ibm.com> writes:
> GNU libc developers and users-
>
> The GNU C library Steering Committee is dropping patches today that
> change the version of the LGPL that is used, to version 2.1.
The current first set of patches is at
http://www.suse.de/~aj/glibc-lgpl-diff-v2.bz2 and against a slightly
older glibc (from 2nd July). I'll update that patch asap, integrate
it and fix the other files. I will not do this today ;-)
> The new language is the most recent FSF version. It:
> - adds slightly better legal language that makes glibc
> more widely useable.
> - moves the libio files under the LGPL. (they were formerly
> under the GPL).
>
> We are aware that there may be some who take issue with this; please
> direct all comments to the steering committee at <glibc-sc@gnu.org>.
Andreas
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