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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