News about SCO's attack on GMP

Mark Rodenkirch mgrogue at wi.rr.com
Fri Apr 2 02:32:18 CEST 2004


It is April 1st BTW.  I do recall a certain Torbjorn Granlund posting a 
message one year ago today about how GMP was no longer going to be open 
source and that they would only release binaries in the future...

--Mark

On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 05:55  PM, DTAshley at aol.com wrote:

> I'm totally confused.
>
> I've looked through and used the GMP, and it seems to be large-integer 
> and rational math based on published best-known algorithms.
>
> I don't see the relationship with Linux and Unix--especially since the 
> core of the library could even be ported to an embedded system.
>
> What am I not seeing?
>
> Best regards, Dave.
>
> In a message dated 4/1/2004 5:21:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> asmoore at edge.net writes:
>
>
> On 01 Apr 2004 21:40:23 +0200
> Torbjorn Granlund <tg at swox.com> wrote:
>
> > We've updated the GMP web page with information
> > on legal threats we've today recieved from SCD.
> >
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