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Libc licensesLibc licensesPosted Jun 9, 2011 8:52 UTC (Thu) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439)In reply to: GPLv2's implicit patent license and Dalvik by eru Parent article: Android, forking, and control
I think all the other light weight libcs are in fact LGPL/GPL, eg uclibc, dietlibc. Newlib is partly LGPL too.
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Libc licenses Posted Jun 29, 2011 16:13 UTC (Wed) by JoelSherrill (guest, #43881) [Link]
newlib contains very little code under [L]GPL. No [L]GPL code is supposed to be in any configuration unless it is in the OS specific code. For GNU/Linux, this source is under the libc/sys/linux subdirectory.
If Google had chosen newlib, there would have been less work to get it clean for Android than putting together a new library.
FWIW newlib is used by Cygwin and RTEMS along with bare metal users of GNU tools. It supports a variety of architectures. Newlib is an old project with a community around it.
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