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From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Libraries
Date: 29 Jun 1995 10:57:17 -0700
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Thank you for taking the time to reply :)
J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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.
Hehehe well, if there's a new one when I need one, i'll use it...
else i'll write my own :) I'm just used to writing whatever code I
want/need to use :) I'm one of the rare people who aren't using a co
processor... I've always got some other, more pressing upgrade to spend
my money on 8) hmmm maybe I could just start with the default emulator
and hack it into something better :)
: I think your contribution would be more welcomed in other areas. :)
Nothing I could contribute would be as welcome as the CHANCE to
contribute is to me. :)
: > 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.
: --
Hmmm possibly... but to be honest, the license restrictions against
commercial use are only part of my distaste in using those... I also just
don't like the license, and don't wish to be bound by it... (besides, I
want to make my software as easy to use as possible... ready to run as-is
for the novice user... the advanced users can amuse themselves working
with the extensibility I include in my projects 8) )
Christine