From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: ian@zembu.com
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Another RFC: regex in libiberty
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <200106080134.VAA06362@envy.delorie.com>
References: <200106080127.VAA01308@greed.delorie.com> <si1yovn4f7.fsf@daffy.airs.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00371.html

> gdb already ships with gnu-regex.c.  Why not just move that to
> libiberty?

Because gdb, tcl, expect, cygwin, and gcc each have a copy of regex,
and they're all different.  Which to choose?

> I can't see any reason for a BSD-licensed regex in libiberty.
> libiberty already GPL code.

Any regex added to libiberty becomes part of newlib and cygwin as
well, and those projects are sensitive to GPL vs non-GPL licensing
issues.