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Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library
- From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk dot ukuu dot org dot uk>
- To: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba dot org>
- Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl dot org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>, David Howells <dhowells at redhat dot com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:12:28 +0000
- Subject: Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library
- References: <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Sul, 2004-12-05 at 00:53, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Now, clearly I can do this under the GPL. However, I think it would
> be more useful to have the library under the LGPL, which requires
> either getting the permission of the authors of the kernel files, or
> rewriting them from scratch.
Why not use the mozilla ones ? Some of them are kernel ones reused with
permission and others are reimplementations but it has a fair set of
functions.