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- From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote?
- Message-ID: <C07BG0.AMs@panix.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:45:36 GMT
- References: <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> <1hvu79INNjqq@ftp.UU.NET> <1992Dec31.232412.14996@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec31.232412.14996@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >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.
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- The Andrew malloc seems pretty good. Why oughtn't we use it?
- --
- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM
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