Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Farid Hajji wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > [please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks]
> > 
> > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near
> > or medium future?
> 
> I think I can safely say:
> 
> "No."

To be slightly less glib[c]:

Linking a FreeBSD system against glibc would cause every userland binary
on such a system to become "infected" by the GPL, resulting in obvious
chaos and pandemonium :-)

Kris

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