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Re: [PATCH] Add two forgotten licence exceptions


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 05:35:22PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Can this fix be included as-is or does someone from the FSF need to
> > approve it? Who would I contact about that?
> 
> I approve it.  We have a clear policy intent, endorsed by the FSF,
> that libc_nonshared.a sources have this exception.  If there were
> any question related to nontrivial code newly getting an exception,
> then the debate would be whether we really wanted that nontrivial
> thing to be in libc_nonshared.a at all.

Great, thanks!

> I notice that in other examples like io/stat.c, the exception text
> appears before the warranty disclaimer, rather than after the FSF
> address.  Please make the terms text for the new files exactly
> match the other similar files we already have.  With that caveat,
> please go ahead and commit the change.

Oh, right. I have copied the text from another file in debug/ but it
appears all files going to libc_nonshared.a use a different one;
I have fixed my patch and committed it.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis


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