From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/591 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Isaac Dunham Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: License survey Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:51:15 -0800 Message-ID: <20120222095115.30ad1f13.idunham@lavabit.com> References: <20120219041242.GR146@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <87zkcfc4hz.fsf@gmail.com> <20120219154859.GA16314@openwall.com> <20120219161812.GS146@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329933102 14078 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2012 17:51:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:51:42 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-592-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Feb 22 18:51:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S0GLp-0002PK-Qn for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:51:37 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 9571 invoked by uid 550); 22 Feb 2012 17:51:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 9563 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2012 17:51:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=NMlJyFQpr8dEgA68cJp2d8DnJ0LhI9Lh4PAQAODT+SqNAE9bFipYv5z2KfQnb73zlAv4MfsG6iJomojz5wLGmaavGWq3qG+2FCdgmaP0BPfGgnBWzOMURsv60EUrlwd4vlmqrlm0BYlUg34EZa+MUq63x+VFIBiFl21A1q0VkJ0=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; In-Reply-To: <20120219161812.GS146@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:591 Archived-At: For the record, there is a public domain libc that supports Linux and can be used to build GCC on some platforms (ie known to work on mainframes): pdclib (from the PDOS project on sourceforge) It's ANSI C89 only, though. Rich Felker wrote: > One thing I like about copyleft and having external copyright holders > is that the rules apply to me too. If, for instance, I were working in > embedded systems as a job, and my employer asked me to prepare a > derived work of musl for purely-closed use, I could simply tell them > that's not possible without the consent of other copyright holders. .. > Another issue (I suspect Solar will feel differently than me about > this one) is the possibility of offering a non-free, closed version. > If I'm doing a BSD-licensed project and asking others to contribute > under BSD license, it feels like I'm taking their contributions to > build something I could turn around and make closed/commercial > derivatives of for my own benefit. .. LGPL +static linking exception for now, and review later? Or just stick with LGPL? -- Isaac Dunham