On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Michael Hope wrote:
Ah, there's all types of things going on here. It's an unusual one as string routines such as memcpy() are fundamental and self contained and pointless to reimplement. I want to share them almost as a gift, usable by anyone under any terms and, ideally, to allow third party improvements to be freely shared.
They should be put into the public domain then.
We want the same routines to end up in Newlib, Bionic, and proprietary projects.
... which public domain would allow.
Copyright Linaro under the MIT/X11 license allows this, but the GLIBC steering committee prefers copyright FSF under the LGPL. MIT/X11 allows re-licensing but doesn't handle the copyright assignment.
Public domain is effectively uncopirighted, so no more copyright assignment issues.
Nicolas