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Changes in glibc development

Posted Mar 27, 2012 23:00 UTC (Tue) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)
Parent article: Changes in glibc development

So, given that glibc has been taken over by a group of people closer to the core of the GNU project than Drepper, will the next step be a switch from the LGPL-2.1 to LGPL-3?

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Posted Mar 28, 2012 1:12 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

No, the FSF (who owned the copyright before and still do) are not going to change the license terms.

The more interesting possible outcome is a merger of eglibc and glibc.