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Re: strcasestr() patch proposal
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:05:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: strcasestr() patch proposal
- References: <200706071457.l57EvgVg016329@mx1.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: newlib at sourceware dot org
On Jun 7 10:57, Olivier Langlois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have adapted and improved the glibc function strcasestr() for newlib and I
> would like to propose you the changes. The relevant changes are attached.
If you did that for Cygwin, then we have a problem here. The function
is apparently licensed GPL. Due to the dual-licensing of Cygwin, we
can't import functions which are GPLed or LGPLed in Cygwin. Please
consider to license this function under a more liberate license like
BSD.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat