Re: memmem speedup

[Eric Blake]

Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> writes:

> on the topic of integrating it elsewhere ... the comment header states that 
> this is part of the GNU C library.

The original, before my hacks, was a straight copy from glibc; so this is
intended to be pushed back to glibc.

>  if it were part of glibc, it would be 
> under the LGPL-2.1, but the comment header in gnulib states GPL-2.

This is a recurring conversation on this list.  The license in the .c file is
currently specified as the most restrictive that people tend to use, but the
license line in the gnulib/modules/memmem file makes it clear that when you use
gnulib-tool --lgpl --import memmem, you will get a copy of memmem.c with a
LGPLv2+ license, as desired, without violating any licensing.

>  does that 
> mean memmem will not be released under the LGPL-2.1 and won't be merged into 
> glibc ?

No - I fully intend for my implementation to be usable under LGPLv2+.  You
should be more than welcome to use it in uClibc.

-- 
Eric Blake