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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl6.crl.com!not-for-mail From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Libraries Date: 29 Jun 1995 10:57:17 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 53 Message-ID: <3supht$g6l@crl6.crl.com> References: <3shjcf$kd0@crl7.crl.com> <3sq0c1$37s@park.uvsc.edu> <3sq1oi$glv@crl2.crl.com> <3stthf$auq@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl6.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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