[uClibc] buildroot gcc-4 proposed changes

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Tue May 10 07:15:24 UTC 2005


On Mon, 9 May 2005, Manuel Novoa III wrote:

> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:36:40PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Monday 09 May 2005 05:32 pm, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> > > > > Soon means by end of May.  Since I'm hoping to raise contributions
> > > > > for hospice with it, I do not plan for it to be LGPL initially.
> > > > > Once a (currently unspecified) target is reached, then I'd LGPL it.
> > > > > Until then, it would be free for noncommercial use by all and for
> > > > > commercial use by a few (individuals/companies that had contributed
> > > > > to uClibc development in some meaningful way).
> > > > >
> > > > > Manuel
> > > >
> > > > Then I would propose to stick w/ the current implementation, add what is
> > > > missing to it (all float/double/long double missing from SuSv3,see math
> > > > patches from me in bugs.uclibc.org), put your implementation parallely to
> > > > the current, so that anyone can choose the one that fits her/his
> > > > licensing requirements, until the new one will become LGPL too.
> > >
> > > Absolutely not.  Why should I care about commercial users who do not or
> > > have never supported uClibc development?  If they want to use the old
> > > stuff, then they can go to the trouble of integrating it and maintaining
> > > it themselves.  I don't see why I should make it easy for them.
> > 
> > I don't think this counts as "mere aggregation".  Can you patch it into uClibc 
> > and distribute the result if it's not under a compatible license?
> 
> And just to reiterate since it seems to have been dropped from the
> quoted section, this is yet another attempt to generated charitable
> donations for hospice in Toni's name.

Sorry, I have overreading this, else I haven't dropped it. Good luck

Peter

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