Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/11/12:46:52
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Christopher Croughton wrote:
>
> > Or as another example, if I release a program using the ANSI function
> > tmpfile, which is broken in the DJGPP library, and include a version
> > of the code which includes a patch SO THAT IT WORKS (by not working
> > DJGPP is not the ANSI-compliant system which it claims to be) then
> > that program is made GPL.
>
> If you don't mind letting everyone else benefit from the patch, then
> submit the necessary patch to DJ, and this problem is solved. But if
> somebody *does* mind, if they want to have the patched tmpfile, large
> parts of which were written by DJ Delorie, just for themselves, then I
> have no sympathy for these people.
And while we're just at this, send me patch and a short description,
too.
And have a look at
ftp://ftp.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/djgpp/patches
because I do have the feeling that this special function
has been fixed already. So people can benefit from patches
already _before_ the next release of libc.
There are a lot of people out there spending time and
money for keeping this project up (in my case government money ;-),
so helping to fix bugs is not such a big deal, isn't it?
--
Ciao
Tom
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