Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:22:44 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2 |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > > I believe HPA wants klibc to stay small, > and BSD license will act as contribution- > stopper, therefore keeping it small... >
Heh,
Although that may be a beneficial side effect :) the real reason is the one Linus articulated:
> I can _totally_ see hpa's point that he would be perfectly happy with > people "stealing" parts of it - the code in question is not something > that anybody should _ever_ have to re-create, even if he's the most > evil person on earth and hates the GPL and wants to kill us all. > Because it's not _worth_ recreating.
-hpa
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