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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:54:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender: eliz AT is
To: Allens <allen DOT asjp AT cableol DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cpu support
In-Reply-To: <36644222.190F773A@cableol.co.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981202105413.24125M-100000@is>
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Allens wrote:

> I believe the Berkely licence is very unrestricive (The redistribute in
> the same form etc etc etc), but don't quote me on that.  (Do a web
> search, it should find some more stuff).

The DJGPP FAQ list explains *exactly* what the BSD license requires,
in section 19.1.

> I thought libc is a purely DJGPP-ported-from-linux thing.

No, the DJGPP libc has absolutely nothing to do with Linux (which uses
GNU libc, aka glibc).  The DJGPP's library was written from scratch,
mostly by DJ Delorie, specifically for DJGPP.  That is why you can do
anything you like with programs compiled by DJGPP, whereas linking
with glibc would make them fall under the GNU Library license (aka
LGPL).

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