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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5799 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:56:12 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote? Message-ID: <1992Dec31.232412.14996@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> <1hvu79INNjqq@ftp.UU.NET> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:24:12 GMT Lines: 18 In article <1hvu79INNjqq@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: #GNU malloc is copylefted. Using it in a library means that every program #compiled using that library is copylefted. That is almost certainly the #reason why it is not used, and I cannot fault anyone for that. Well, this would mean that programs would have to be distributed under the less restrictive GLPL instead of the GPL, but I still bet many people won't like this restriction. People would be required to ship a linkable executable, but would not be forced to release source code. -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w