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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:17:36 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
       Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: klibc development release
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Rob Landley wrote:
> (Dietlibc is straight GPL: it can't even be the dynamic replacement
> for glibc in a real world linux distribution.  HPA suggested I look at
> newlibc, which I've added to my to-do list).

Since klibc is meant for compiling programs tightly bound to the kernel
in initramfs, such as partition scanning, NFS root mounting, module
loading etc., I wonder what the problem with even a GPLed klibc is?

Surely all the programs that its intended to be used with will be GPLed,
perhaps even part of the kernel source tree?

(Not that I mind at all.  I expect I will be using klibc's simplicity
and 3-clause BSD license in my employer's proprietary product soon enough..)

-- Jamie
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