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Re: Where to put my basename() and dirname() implementation...
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:21:47PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>
>>I don't want to add any more libiberty routines to cygwin since the
>>licensing is suspect. So, please follow the normal submission rules.
>>Probably miscfuncs.cc is the place to add this.
>>
>
>That make sense. Unlike many of the other functions in libiberty, The
>basename() function itself in libiberty/basename.c is public domain --
>which may be good for our purposes, or it may be bad (I dunno, and cgf
>has already made the call: it's "suspect". Fair enough.) In any case,
>it does no harm to have "our" own version that can be copyright-assigned
>to Red Hat and distributed under the Cygwin license.
I once thought that the libiberty functions were ok to use but someone
told me that their copyright status was suspect. Perhaps more
pragmatically, I don't like the current method of depending on libiberty
objects in the makefile.
So, I think it's simpler to avoid using them.
However, pulling in versions from, say, FreeBSD would be acceptable.
cgf