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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com> on 1996/04/20 15:58:12 UTC

Re: regexpr

>   Er, no.  It means you ask, then you get a second opinion, then you
>   check with your lawyers.
> 
> Oh, come on.  "Redistribute freely" is pretty plain English, besides which,
> this package has been used in so many pieces of commercial and Berklicensed
> software by now that in the extremely unlikely case that Henry Spencer were
> suddenly to get stupidly greedy we would not be the first target of opportunity
> (nor probably even the fifth).
> 
> rst

Henry Spencer is a good spirit. I'm sure he would be happy
to see us use it.  I for one would vote to include his package
since it is in wide use and considered to be a relatively
speedy implementation.