[Toybox] Fwd: musl 0.9.0 released - relicensed to MIT license

[David Seikel]

On Mon, 07 May 2012 08:23:51 +0300 Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
<gf at unixsol.org> wrote:

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [musl] musl 0.9.0 released
> Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 17:39:17 -0400
> From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>
> Reply-To: musl at lists.openwall.com
> To: musl at lists.openwall.com
> 
> Hi everyone,
> OK, here it is: the first release in the 0.9.0 series:
> 
>    Milestone release covering all interfaces in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008
>    base. Relicensed under standard MIT license. New configure script
>    for easy build setup. Full stack protector and PIE support on i386
>    and x86_64 targets. Major floating-point math improvements and
>    fixes, application compatibility improvements (mostly legacy header
>    details), and additional bug fixes in dlerror and several wide
>    character functions.
> 
>    http://www.etalabs.net/musl/releases/musl-0.9.0.tar.gz
> 
> Yes, the biggest news is probably relicensing. I'm hopeful that the
> decision to relicense to something more permissive will lead to wider
> adoption and interest and further the project's goal to be the best
> libc for Linux whichever way one measures. I chose the MIT license
> because it's clear and explicit about the freedoms I intend for users
> of musl to have, while avoiding placing any burden of license
> compliance on users of the library.
> 
> As for what's in store for the future, I'm hoping to expand PIE
> support to make fully static-linked PIE binaries possible, get musl
> ported to more targets, improve the size and performance of the math
> code while not sacrificing correctness, add zoneinfo file support for
> timezones, add some level of locale support, and improve pthreads with
> the addition of scheduling priority support.
> 
> As usual, please report any problems. Hopefully there won't be
> anything major this time and we can hold off on 0.9.1 until there's
> new functionality and optimizations to include.

Cool, I might try it sooner or later.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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