From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3228 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: High-priority library replacements? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:13:33 +0200 Message-ID: <517B88AD.7060906@gentoo.org> References: <1367041512.18069.170@driftwood> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367050427 25433 80.91.229.3 (27 Apr 2013 08:13:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:13:47 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3232-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Apr 27 10:13:52 2013 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 1UW0GU-0004te-27 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3654 invoked by uid 550); 27 Apr 2013 08:13:48 -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 3646 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2013 08:13:48 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130411 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <1367041512.18069.170@driftwood> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3228 Archived-At: On 04/27/2013 07:45 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 04/25/2013 12:53:53 PM, Zvi Gilboa wrote: >> Ironically, much of the current thread is about the need to create >> alternatives to commonly-used GPL'ed libraries, which in itself reminds >> of past (and present) efforts to create open source alternatives to >> proprietary libraries and software products. > > Unfortunately the FSF poisoned copyleft in 2006. The GPL was a category > killer synonymous with copyleft... until GPLv3 came out and there was no > longer any such thing as "The GPL". For my personal usage I'm still quite fond of LGPL, (even for programs). I do not see how to fix it beside picking a license I like and tracking contributors in case I need to switch to another. lu