Re: libgen: basename and dirname [PATCH]

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
>
> > On Apr 8, 2005 10:51 AM, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I realize it is a pain, but it could be a whole lot worse if we forced
> > > everyone to sign a permission form like the FSF does.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > It's not a problem.  I understand the purpose of copyrights and
> > licenses.  Here's the revised patch.  I stole libgen.h from
> > winsup/cygwin/include/libgen.h..
>
>
> It is rather ironic to include a statement of understanding of copyrights
> and licenses and the word "stole" in the same paragraph.
>
> Did you happen to notice the copyright you included below?  Please find
> some other source for this header file.  I would prefer not to put cygwin
> copyrighted material in newlib.

Don't worry, I noticed it.  I am going to rewrite it from scratch since it is 
just the two function prototypes.

Shaun, in the future, you can't use the Cygwin license for shared headers/source 
files.

-- Jeff J.

> cgf
>
>
> > diff -u /dev/null libc/include/libgen.h
> > --- /dev/null	2005-04-04 21:44:30.000000000 -0700
> > +++ libc/include/libgen.h	2005-04-08 10:12:06.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> > +/* libgen.h
> > +
> > +   Copyright 2005 Red Hat, Inc.
> > +
> > +This file is part of Cygwin.
> > +
> > +This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the
> > +Cygwin license.  Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for
> > +details. */
> > +
> > +#ifndef _LIBGEN_H
> > +#define _LIBGEN_H
> > +
> > +#include <sys/cdefs.h>
> > +
> > +__BEGIN_DECLS
> > +
> > +extern char *basename (char *path);
> > +extern char *dirname (char *path);
> > +
> > +__END_DECLS
> > +
> > +#endif /* _LIBGEN_H */