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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5798 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:56:11 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!not-for-mail From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote? Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:03:05 -0800 Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 13 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Message-ID: <1hvu79INNjqq@ftp.UU.NET> References: <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net "comp" is not a valid distribution. By putting "Distribution: comp" in your header, you have caused or allowed a growing number of sites around the world to drop your article on the floor. If you don't care whether or not people see your article, please feel free to continue using invalid dis- tributions. In article <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >I say we petition Bill to use GNU malloc in preference. GNU malloc is copylefted. Using it in a library means that every program compiled using that library is copylefted. That is almost certainly the reason why it is not used, and I cannot fault anyone for that.