On Jun 4 18:18, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >> Sometimes I wonder what the purpose of newlib is. If it is > >> to become a full glibc replacement, the why not just use > >> glibc? Is it a licensing thing? > >> > > > >Yes. > > What is the licensing thing? Would it also apply to my extracting chunks > of glibc and contributing them to newlib?
If you want to use it in Cygwin, I think it wouldn't be a good idea to put it into newlib. Since your code is from glibc, I'm pretty sure it's LGPL'd, right? LGPL'd code couldn't go into the Cygwin lib for licensing reasons. So we would have to exclude this code from the functions linked in from newlib. Better keep it a separate package/library. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.
