Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:22:26 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: klibc development release |
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >>klibc is a tiny C library subset intended to be integrated into the >>kernel source tree and being used for initramfs stuff. Thus, >>initramfs+rootfs can be used to move things that are currently in >>kernel space, such as ip autoconfiguration or nfsroot (in fact, >>mounting root in general) into user space. > > Could I link 4-clause BSD source against this? > (the GPL is incompatible with the 4-clause BSD license) >
I'm planning to release this under a BSD-like license, such as 3-clause BSD, MIT or the X license. I'm still looking at each of those.
> >>I would particularly appreciate portability comments, since I'm flying >>blind on non-i386 machines (anyone want to send me hardware?), >>although any bug reports would be appreciated. >> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/klibc.tar.gz >> >>I haven't bothered putting a version number on it, since it changes >>quite often. I have also published the CVS repository in the >>directory above. > > I could test on PowerPC, but wouldn't be able to tell you > if I'm testing the latest code or not. You don't need to > get creative with the version number; an integer is fine. >
Good point.
-hpa
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