Re: [avr-gcc-list] I fixed dtostre()

[Joerg Wunsch]

"Alexander Popov" <address@hidden> wrote:

> There are two disadvantages : 
> 1.there is no floating point (it raises code size 
> extremely)

We already agreed that there should be at least two versions of
printf, one with and one without floating point.

> 2.The code is GPL-ed

Could you lift this restriction?  From the BSD copyright above, and
when comparing your code against the version from 4.4BSD-Lite, you've
taken the 4.4BSD version as the base of your work, but then stuck a
GPL in front of the original copyright message (which doesn't make
much sense IMHO, since both are contradictionary to some extent).

There's general agreement that no GPL'ed file will make it into
avr-libc, since its restrictions are unacceptable for a lot of the
(professional) avr-libc users.  If you as the author of this modified
version release it under plain BSD copyright (minus the original
clause 3), i'd consider it for a potential inclusion into avr-libc.
Otherwise, i'd ignore it, and rather roll my own version instead.
(Actually, there are files with a GPL copyright in libm, but the
author of these files has explicitly granted permission that the GPL
restrictions don't apply for a derived work obtained by linking
against this library, but only apply wrt. future modifications of the
source and the requirements to make these modifications available.)

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