Re: [patches] decNumber issues for decimal float support

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Janis Johnson wrote:

> When decNumber is used in two GNU projects we will presumably need a
> home for the sources from which the other project can copy.  The license
> will need to be appropriate for both projects.  It might be relevant for
> the license issue that the decNumber functions in both projects are
> meant to be used only to support the documented functions in those
> libraries and are not meant to be called directly from user code.

I think the appropriate license for such code shared between GCC and glibc 
is LGPL plus exception as used in soft-fp, but check with RMS about using 
this on a version with FSF copyright notices.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx