If one reads the entire liscence on the code with a 'bsd' liscence, there
is a special exception for glibc, allowing it to be covered by the GPL.

Glibc-2.1 has been released, and by the GPL conditions, anyone who
downloaded a copy is free to re-release it. One can get a copy from 

ftp://glibc.cygnus.com/pub/glibc/

Rumor has it the *real* reason it was pulled was that glibc will only
compile with egcs, and was pulled because of lack of support for the 'GNU
C compiler'. This really makes no difference on the PPC, since is no
recent GCC with decent PowerPC support.

I can't comment on what the current state of glibc 2.0.xxx is but we
should clarify something for the sake of the Linux/PPC people (Jason, et
all).  glibc2.1 is not being pulled from r5 alone.  glibc2.1 was
completely pulled from distrubtion on ANY platform by gnu due to licensing
problems with one section of code written by people outside gnu.  They
put a license restriction on their section of code that was a bsd style
license, which conflicts with the GPL.  As a result GNU pulled glibc2.1
from their site.  The ability or inability to include glibc2.1 in r5 is
not a linuxppc.com decision at this point in time.  From posts I've read
it seems that many have misinterpreted Jason's post to mean that
linuxppc.com chose not to include glibc2.1.  I'm not privy to their
decision making process but in this case, glibc2.1 is being pulled by a
"higher power"  Please no flames as to the assention of RMS to higher
power status (smile)

Keith Clayton
kclayton@jps.net


On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, /* Vinai */ wrote:

quoted

Folks,

I remember a few days ago, there was talk about the latest version of
glibc being pulled from R5.  We use an in-house software package that
has a plug-in architecture. With the bug in "dlopen", the plug-ins are
not accessible ...

Can anyone say whether the R5 version of glibc will have this fix ??

thanx

vinai

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