On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 03:15:16PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote: > Is glibc purely GNU? It borrows code from a variety of sources and > was not written completely from scratch. (Although there are many > parts which are unique to glibc, too.) > What about GNU tar? It started out as pdtar. > GCC shares a lot of libraries and components with other projects which are not > necessarily GNU.
Thanks for your replies! Indeed, the pleasure of free software - we can "remix"! Andreas