FYI: Cygnus is no longer (CNI and CYGNUS LOCAL)

Jim Wilson wilson@tuliptree.org
Fri Jul 11 19:22:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 03:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
> This Sun code is the same as that in glibc, which is GPL'd FSF code.
> libgcj is GPL+exceptions, also FSF code.

Thanks.  That is useful info.  I will mention this to rms.

> Why may not libgcj use this code if glibc may?

I did not say that you couldn't use the code.  What I said is that it
can't be part of GCC.  This is because the FSF wants to retain copyright
ownership of all code in GCC.  I suggested resolving the problem for now
by adding documentation stating that the code is not part of GCC, but is
included for convenience.

Jim




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