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Re: [PATCH COMMITTED] Optimize sparc 32-bit V9 GMP multiplyroutines.


From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:57:02 +0000

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> +! The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> +! it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
>> +! by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
>> +! your option) any later version.
> 
> glibc is LGPLv2.1+, not v3; you can't add v3 code to it, and need FSF 
> approval (or the approval of all significant contributors) to relicense v3 
> code from other FSF-owned projects under v2.1+ for glibc.

Actually, this is code I wrote myself and am in the process of
submitting to libgmp.

Therefore I could license it however I wish, right?


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