Re: Libiberty licensing

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
 >  
 >   In message <19991017214949.A21083@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>you write:
 >   > Recently, a new file was added to libiberty - hashtab.c. The
 >   > license on the top of the file says that libiberty is under the
 >   > GNU Library General Public License (which corresponds to other
 >   > older files). strtod.c says that libiberty is under the GNU
 >   > GPL, with a linking exception.  floatformat.c claims to be part
 >   > of GDB, but is linked into libiberty and is under the GPL with
 >   > no exception. What license is libiberty supposed to be under?
 >   > 
 >   > As a final note, I find that calloc.c has no license or copyright 
 >   > information attached, which may be a problem no matter what license
 >   > libiberty is under.
 >  
 > There is no single license for libiberty.  Each file has its own license.
 > jeff

Since I wrote calloc.c, I added a notice releasing it into the public
domain, as is the case much of the rest of libiberty's simple
replacement functions.

Note, I don't think calloc.c is actually linked in on any system in
use today since they all have it already in their libc. :-)  

		--Kaveh
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