On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Michael Hope wrote: > Ah, there's all types of things going on here. It's an unusual one as > string routines such as memcpy() are fundamental and self contained > and pointless to reimplement. I want to share them almost as a gift, > usable by anyone under any terms and, ideally, to allow third party > improvements to be freely shared.
They should be put into the public domain then. > We want the same routines to end up > in Newlib, Bionic, and proprietary projects. ... which public domain would allow. > Copyright Linaro under the MIT/X11 license allows this, but the GLIBC > steering committee prefers copyright FSF under the LGPL. MIT/X11 > allows re-licensing but doesn't handle the copyright assignment. Public domain is effectively uncopirighted, so no more copyright assignment issues. Nicolas _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
