[OFFTOPIC] Re: Slightly off-topic - glibc 2.1

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:00:49 -0500


On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:44:49PM -0600, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:
>
> > iirc, they had some licensing problems with db2.
> >
> > its up again. Just checked. there is a new LICENSE file in db2 subdir, if you
> > are interested.
>
> From what I heard, GNU removed it from their site because the
> glibc authors recommended egcs over gcc. glibc 2.1 is still available
> (minus the 2.1 crypt addon) at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/glibc/

maybe that was why GNU did it, but even the sourceware.cygnus.com site had
taken it down for a while.

-- arvind

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