[uClibc] buildroot gcc-4 proposed changes

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Mon May 9 21:32:34 UTC 2005


On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:52:57PM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> 
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > > Hello Manuel!
> > > 
> > > > Since I've finally started working on the libm rewrite again and plan
> > > > to completely rip out the existing libm soon, I'm not even looking at
> > > > those patches.
> > > 
> > > May I ask what soon means (only approximately if at all possible), and if 
> > > you consider to provide it LGPL licensed or some other?
> > 
> > Soon means by end of May.  Since I'm hoping to raise contributions
> > for hospice with it, I do not plan for it to be LGPL initially.
> > Once a (currently unspecified) target is reached, then I'd LGPL it.
> > Until then, it would be free for noncommercial use by all and for
> > commercial use by a few (individuals/companies that had contributed
> > to uClibc development in some meaningful way).
> > 
> > Manuel
> 
> Then I would propose to stick w/ the current implementation, add what is 
> missing to it (all float/double/long double missing from SuSv3,see math 
> patches from me in bugs.uclibc.org), put your implementation parallely to 
> the current, so that anyone can choose the one that fits her/his licensing 
> requirements, until the new one will become LGPL too.

Absolutely not.  Why should I care about commercial users who do not or
have never supported uClibc development?  If they want to use the old
stuff, then they can go to the trouble of integrating it and maintaining
it themselves.  I don't see why I should make it easy for them.

Manuel



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