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- From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:03:05 -0800
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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- Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET
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- References: <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie>
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- "comp" is not a valid distribution. By putting "Distribution: comp" in your
- header, you have caused or allowed a growing number of sites around the
- world to drop your article on the floor. If you don't care whether or not
- people see your article, please feel free to continue using invalid dis-
- tributions.
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- In article <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
- >I say we petition Bill to use GNU malloc in preference.
-
- 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.
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