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uClibc license
uClibc - a Small C Library for Linux
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
uClibc (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for developing
embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller than the GNU C Library, but nearly
all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting
applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source
code.
uClibc even supports shared libraries and threading. It currently runs on
standard Linux and MMU-less (also known as µClinux) systems with support for
alpha, ARM, cris, e1, h8300, i386, i960, m68k, microblaze, mips/mipsel,
PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that glibc is eating up
too much space, you should consider using uClibc. If you are building a huge
fileserver with 12 Terabytes of storage, then using glibc may make more sense.
Unless, for example, that 12 Terabytes will be Network Attached Storage and
you plan to burn Linux into the system's firmware..
uClibc is maintained by Erik Andersen and is licensed under the GNU LIBRARY
GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. This license allows you to make closed source
commercial applications using an unmodified version of uClibc (Please consider
sharing some of the money you make ;-). You do not need to give away all your
source code just because you use uClibc and/or run on Linux. You should,
however, carefully review the license and make certain you understand and
abide by it strictly.
For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
uClibc strives to be standards compliant, which means that most documentation
written for SuSv3, or for glibc also applies to uClibc functions. However, many
GNU extensions are not supported because they have not been ported, or more
importantly, would increase the size of uClibc disproportional to the added
functionality. There is some discussion of these differences in the "docs"
directory.
Additional information (recent releases, FAQ, mailing list, bugs, etc.) can be
found at http://www.uclibc.org/.
uClibc may be freely modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU Library
General Public License, which can be found in the file COPYING.LIB.