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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:22:26 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Organization: Zytor Communications
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To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: klibc development release
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>>klibc is a tiny C library subset intended to be integrated into the
>>kernel source tree and being used for initramfs stuff.  Thus,
>>initramfs+rootfs can be used to move things that are currently in
>>kernel space, such as ip autoconfiguration or nfsroot (in fact,
>>mounting root in general) into user space.
> 
> Could I link 4-clause BSD source against this?
> (the GPL is incompatible with the 4-clause BSD license)
> 

I'm planning to release this under a BSD-like license, such as 3-clause
BSD, MIT or the X license.  I'm still looking at each of those.

> 
>>I would particularly appreciate portability comments, since I'm flying
>>blind on non-i386 machines (anyone want to send me hardware?),
>>although any bug reports would be appreciated.
>>
>>    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/klibc.tar.gz
>>
>>I haven't bothered putting a version number on it, since it changes
>>quite often.  I have also published the CVS repository in the
>>directory above.
> 
> I could test on PowerPC, but wouldn't be able to tell you
> if I'm testing the latest code or not. You don't need to
> get creative with the version number; an integer is fine.
> 

Good point.

	-hpa


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