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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Libraries
Date: 29 Jun 1995 11:59:11 +0200
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Christine Maxwell <kaila@crl.com> wrote:
>: The kernel sources in /usr/src/sys/gnu are GPL'ed (basically, an
>: ISDN driver).
>
> I will be getting the source distribution soon (around july 5 or 6)
>and will look at writing replacement libraries for everything in that
>directory :)
I'm pretty sure there will be another ISDN driver available later.
(But please!, don't ask me for details.) There used to be also a
better FPU emulator under /sys/gnu, but it's not worth to write yet
another one (IMHO), since there's already the (worse) default
emulator, and many people are using a hardware NPX anyways. Those who
don't will most certainly be able to use the GLP'ed emulator as well.
I think your contribution would be more welcomed in other areas. :)
> At the moment i've only got two projects going
>under FreeBSD (i'll be adding more by the week and month :) but one of
>them will indeed be commercial... I would have been tempted to use
>libdialog in the BBS package (it'll be a simple multinode bbs, with an
>amazingly high $5 registration fee 8) )
In the assumption that the various libs are only affected by the LGPL,
you could even use them. All you have to do to satisfy the LGPL is
giving somebody who's obtaining your product also the _object_ code,
so he can relink it against another version of the LGPL'ed lib
himself.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)