[uClibc] RE: ldso 0.9.21, libstdc++ crashes on PowerPC GCC 3.3.1

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se
Mon Oct 6 08:34:32 UTC 2003


> Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> writes:
> > > I suspect these are impl. in C somewhere. Is there a reason why
> > > these aren't in assembler? It would be easy to rip these from the
> > > kernel.
> > 
> > The kernel is GPL while uClibc is LGPL.  So while we can borrow
> > code from things like glibc, we cannot borrow kernel code.
> 
> Though if you just ask the original author, he may be willing to say OK
> to using a LGPL'd version for uClibc.

hmm, maybe. But often it is hard to find the author and/or many
other people has contribted too.

  Jocke



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