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Re: glibc stacking up to Windows
- From: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- To: Michael Lueck <mlueck at lueckdatasystems dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:25:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc stacking up to Windows
Michael Lück writes:
> My program needs to simply COPY A FILE!
Other programs have had the same need, and have contributed a copy_file
module into gnulib
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/MODULES.html?content-type=text%2Fhtml&rev=HEAD&root=gnulib
> The OSS/FS project this will be a contribution to is an IBM project they released
> under CPL which they love. CPL can not have any GPL "tainted" code in it.
Well, then you're out of luck: This part of gnulib is under GPL. You will have to
negotiate with IBM so that they change that project's license to GPL. Or use
posix_spawn of /bin/cp, as Ulrich indicated.
Bruno