Mostly good news on the NeXT front.

[David Rankin]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:28:15AM -0600, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> I'll be able to test on next 4.2 after the initial 3.3 port.  

> I have a vsnprintf/snprintf that compiles (works?) on NeXT.  Not sure how
> portable nor if it truely solves the security issue (it's from the
> comp.sys.next.programmer fokes).  Plus NeXT 3.3 (not sure about 4.2 yet)
> lacks a putenv().  I found one that compiles cleanly from the GNU libc
> fokes.  Which brings up licensing issues.  I'm not sure if we can get a
> wavier or if we will have to write our own.  It looks simple enough to
> rewrite if we have to.  I personally hate reinventing wheels.

is libc under the LGPL? If so, and I think it is, its license isn't
incompatable with distributing the rest of the package under the
BSD-ish license it has.

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