Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:12:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:12:18 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:34322 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:12:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3E6FCF54.60708@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:22:44 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Roman Zippel , Russell King , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2 References:

<20030307233916.Q17492@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3E692EE4.9020905@zytor.com> <3E693D65.8060308@zytor.com> <20030312172706.GA5489@zaurus.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030312172706.GA5489@zaurus.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 25 Pavel Machek wrote: > > I believe HPA wants klibc to stay small, > and BSD license will act as contribution- > stopper, therefore keeping it small... > Heh, Although that may be a beneficial side effect :) the real reason is the one Linus articulated: > I can _totally_ see hpa's point that he would be perfectly happy with > people "stealing" parts of it - the code in question is not something > that anybody should _ever_ have to re-create, even if he's the most > evil person on earth and hates the GPL and wants to kill us all. > Because it's not _worth_ recreating. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/