From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Espie To: Jeffrey A Law Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: libiberty legal status ? Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:11:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990908121008.A20588@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> References: <19990908112813.A28184@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> <28760.936784674@upchuck.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00280.html On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:57:54AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > The legal status of libiberty is clear. Read the copyrights -) Could you be MORE explicit ? I read the copyright info in the libiberty directory, and this is not clear at all to me. - there are several copyright notices in evidence in distinct files. As far as I know, this means some of these files are GPL, not LGPL. - I can't find what would apply in COPYING.LIB. 3. doesn't work, as all the copyright notices were not changed, 7. doesn't apply as well. I don't see any prominent notices. -- Marc Espie |anime, sf, juggling, unicycle, acrobatics, comics... |AmigaOS, OpenBSD, C++, perl, Icon, PostScript... | `real programmers don't die, they just get out of beta' From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Espie To: Jeffrey A Law Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: libiberty legal status ? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990908121008.A20588@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> References: <19990908112813.A28184@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr> <28760.936784674@upchuck.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00280.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.B0ystHIENJzNsYsgHOSAkuu64X98zy8u6hUgkp8DBH8@z> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:57:54AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > The legal status of libiberty is clear. Read the copyrights -) Could you be MORE explicit ? I read the copyright info in the libiberty directory, and this is not clear at all to me. - there are several copyright notices in evidence in distinct files. As far as I know, this means some of these files are GPL, not LGPL. - I can't find what would apply in COPYING.LIB. 3. doesn't work, as all the copyright notices were not changed, 7. doesn't apply as well. I don't see any prominent notices. -- Marc Espie |anime, sf, juggling, unicycle, acrobatics, comics... |AmigaOS, OpenBSD, C++, perl, Icon, PostScript... | `real programmers don't die, they just get out of beta'