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Debian switching to EGLIBC

Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 19:57 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by ajross
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC

eglibc even starts with the same letters as egcs, and includes *three* of
the same letters.

It is fated.

:)


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Debian switching to EGLIBC

Posted May 6, 2009 20:57 UTC (Wed) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Perhaps more to the point, it appears to involve some of the same people (eglibc development is organized by CodeSourcery; I suspect Mark Mitchell is familiar with gcc's history), and has the same copyright assignment rules.

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