Re: libregex library

From: Tim Robbins (tjr_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/18/04

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    To: Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:26:47 +1100

    On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:37 -0700, Ben Mesander wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > It's come to my attention that libregex on FreeBSD is GPL'd - not
    > LGPL'd. I think it rather violates the POLA that anything that uses
    > regex_t and is compiled on FreeBSD ends up being covered by the terms
    > of the GPL.
    >
    > Has there been any thought given to moving to the modified Henry
    > Spencer regex library used in NetBSD & OpenBSD's libc?

    What do you think src/lib/libc/regex is?

    Tim

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