Date: Fri, 7 May 93 16:24:06 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: malloc/free broken??

> > The malloc that djgpp uses is the original BSD freed malloc sources.
> > I cannot use the GNU malloc because of the GPL.  The current malloc
> > will only reuse a block if |log2(size+4)| is the same.

> Well, actually anybody could use GNU malloc.  It would just mean that
> the resulting program would be covered by the GPL.

Correct.  What I meant was that I cannot include gnu's malloc in
libc.a, since the modules in libc.a cannot be GPL.  I decided long ago
to avoid GPL in the required parts of the development kit (crt0, libc,
go32, etc) to avoid automatically GPLing every application.