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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:34697 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1692 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!daffy!daffy!quale From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes In-Reply-To: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Sat, 17 Apr 1993 21:03:03 GMT Message-ID: <QUALE.93Apr17174607@spock.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: University of Wisconsin -- Madison References: <1qo0lq$1hm4@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Apr17.161516.2794@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.175431.25015@coe.montana.edu> <1993Apr17.193029.5707@klaava.helsinki.fi> <1993Apr17.210303.12001@coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 23:46:07 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1993Apr17.210303.12001@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: The stdio code that HJ has done lots of work on(and I commend him on it). The original code, before he fixed some of the bugs, was originally distributed by AT&T, but HJ's fixes are now GPL code, so in order to get working stdio code we have to do those fixes all over in order to make anything compiled against those libraries ABSOLUTELY FREELY REDISTRUTABLE. Well Nate, the stdio code in Linux is GNU iostream, part of the g++ library, has always been under the GPL, and was *never* distributed by AT&T. Of course your argument is so confused that I don't expect you to pay any attention to accuracy or the facts in your posts, but I thought I should point that out for the benefit of the people who aren't familiar with the Linux libraries. -- Doug Quale quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu