From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 23:46:07 GMT
In article <1993Apr17.210303.12001@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
The stdio code that HJ has done lots of work on(and I commend him on
it). The original code, before he fixed some of the bugs, was originally
distributed by AT&T, but HJ's fixes are now GPL code, so in order to
get working stdio code we have to do those fixes all over in order to
make anything compiled against those libraries ABSOLUTELY FREELY
REDISTRUTABLE.
Well Nate, the stdio code in Linux is GNU iostream, part of the g++ library,
has always been under the GPL, and was *never* distributed by AT&T. Of
course your argument is so confused that I don't expect you to pay any
attention to accuracy or the facts in your posts, but I thought I should
point that out for the benefit of the people who aren't familiar with the
Linux libraries.