Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:41:25PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
>> Apart from the lack of wait4, libgo on IRIX 6.5 contained an undefined
>> reference to strerror_r. This patch provides a replacement, based on
>> gnulib/lib/strerror_r.c, but massively simplified.
>
> gnulib strerror_r.c is GPLv3+ licensed, you can't just relicense it
> as BSD.
>From my understanding, this is only an issue if the code is actually
copyrightable, i.e. the idea can reasonably expressed in different
ways. I doubt that for the case at hand, but am not certain.
Rainer
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