Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!lhc!nih-csl!alw.nih.gov!kgorlen From: kgorlen@alw.nih.gov (Keith Gorlen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: GNU infection in NIH Message-ID: <1083@nih-csl.nih.gov> Date: 15 Mar 91 03:00:56 GMT References: <1991Mar12.221804.22466@convex.com> Sender: news@nih-csl.nih.gov Reply-To: kgorlen@alw.nih.gov (Keith Gorlen) Organization: National Inst. of Health Lines: 20 In article , tynor@hydra.gatech.edu (Steve Tynor) writes: |> In article <1991Mar12.221804.22466@convex.com> streepy@convex.com (Larry Streepy) writes: |> |> | ... |> | Anyone that has made use of the NIH class library in a commercial product |> | had better quickly check to make sure that you don't make use of the |> | regex class. If you do, you probably in violation of the GNU copyleft. |> |> Has anyone rewritten the offending files (please, no flames from Gnu |> folks) to remove this connection to the copyleft? Henry Spencer sent me a copy of his regular expression package, which is written in C. Wrapping a C++ class around this would give something close to the current Regex class in functionality, but I haven't had the time. -- Keith Gorlen phone: (301) 496-1111 Building 12A, Room 2033 FAX: (301) 402-0007 National Institutes of Health uucp: uunet!kgorlen%alw.nih.gov Bethesda, MD 20892 Internet: kgorlen@alw.nih.gov