On May 9, 9:45pm, eggert@cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [tz] proposed changes for Win32 and a improved mktime() algor | Robert Elz wrote: | > In that case you, or UCLA, own the copyright, and you can release it | > on any licence(s) that you like. | | I long ago assigned my glibc contributions' copyright to the Free Software | Foundation and would rather that they stay LGPLed. Please consider releasing your code under the BSD license. | Again, if this is a showstopper I won't insist on switching the | implementations. I'd rather not reinvent the mktime wheel, though. The two licenses (BSD and LGPL) are very different and we (NetBSD) would like to keep *GPL code out of libc. The two routines also behave differently with respect to the DST gap (though this was easy to change). Best, christos