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SubjectRe: Slightly off-topic - glibc 2.1
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:20:31PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> > While on the subject of updating, I went on to grab glibc 2.1 and
> > stumbled upon this:
> >
> > <quote ftp site>
> > glibc-2.1 has been (temporarily) removed, until some
> > political issues are worked out.
> > </quote>
> >
> > What's been going on? I can't find any reference to it on the FSF's
> > site.
>
> iirc, they had some licensing problems with db2.
>
> its up again. Just checked. there is a new LICENSE file in db2 subdir, if you
> are interested.

From what I heard, GNU removed it from their site because the
glibc authors recommended egcs over gcc. glibc 2.1 is still available
(minus the 2.1 crypt addon) at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/glibc/

-Dustin


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