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From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sys/queue.h
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:54:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1Wwg_Yg-K9GcQJya5ZsuaOb4scNo17dbKURxChwixLbUrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CE0468.8090106@barfooze.de>

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:47 PM, John Spencer
<maillist-musl@barfooze.de> wrote:
> On 06/28/2013 11:29 PM, Justin Cormack wrote:
>>
>> I just found some code that uses sys/queue.h
>>
>> This is actually just macros and typedefs as far as I can see, no
>> actual code at all. glibc simply uses the header file from BSD as far
>> as I can see, so this would be fairly trivial to add.
>
>
>
> but it has an ugly 3-clause BSD license.

That could be fixed by rewriting it I guess. Not sure it is
copyrightable even...

> relying on its existence is highly fragile so most programs that use it have
> their own copy somewhere in-tree.
> and if not, it's a bug.

Will complain to upstream.

Justin


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-28 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-28 21:29 sys/queue.h Justin Cormack
2013-06-28 21:47 ` sys/queue.h John Spencer
2013-06-28 21:54   ` Justin Cormack [this message]
2013-06-28 22:19     ` sys/queue.h Rich Felker

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