libregex library

Ben Mesander ben at timing.com
Wed Nov 17 15:37:35 PST 2004


Hi,

  It's come to my attention that libregex on FreeBSD is GPL'd - not
LGPL'd. I think it rather violates the POLA that anything that uses
regex_t and is compiled on FreeBSD ends up being covered by the terms
of the GPL.

  Has there been any thought given to moving to the modified Henry
Spencer regex library used in NetBSD & OpenBSD's libc?

Regards,
Ben





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