src/gnu

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jan 25 15:48:43 UTC 2007


In message: <6eb82e0701210945r686e54d5vfc7529d57cf372a6 at mail.gmail.com>
            "Rong-en Fan" <grafan at gmail.com> writes:
: >From hier(7), it says sources covered by GPL are placed here.
: Does that mean all build glue for things covered by GPL have to
: be placed in src/gnu/?
: 
: I'm asking because I noticed there are some applications/libraries
: that are covered by GPL live in outside src/gnu.

src/gnu used to contain the sources for GPL programs.  Now it just
contains the build infrastructure for GPL programs with the actual
sources living in src/contrib.  There may be a few 'legacy' programs
remaining in src/gnu.

Warner


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