glibc licensing change patches

Mark Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 5 06:55:00 GMT 2001


GNU libc developers and users-

The GNU C library Steering Committee is dropping patches today that
change the version of the LGPL that is used, to version 2.1.
The new language is the most recent FSF version. It:
  - adds slightly better legal language that makes glibc
    more widely useable.
  - moves the libio files under the LGPL. (they were formerly
    under the GPL).

We are aware that there may be some who take issue with this; please
direct all comments to the steering committee at <glibc-sc@gnu.org>.

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Mark Brown                                             bmark@us.ibm.com
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