> Well, apparently it seemed really silly to Cygnus's customers, anyway,
> and so Cygnus has a completely free (no GPL strings attached) version of
> libc for their embedded systems customers.
You should be a bit more careful with your words. The libcs are not
comparable. glibc is a full featured, standard compliant library
while the libc we have for embedded platforms only contains the basic
code. What is available hopefully is standard compliant but not all
what ISO C 89 demands is completely implemented (not to mention ISO C
9X). This is ok for embedded platforms but it is no alternative for
glibc.
I never said the embedded libc was comparable to glibc. My point was
that the market has spoken pretty clearly that non-GPL'ed libraries are
required for at least some embedded systems manufacturers.
- Ted