[Privoxy-devel] Removing OS/2 support and the fallback snprintf() implementation

Ian Silvester iansilvester at fastmail.fm
Fri Aug 7 16:13:38 UTC 2020


No objection from me, despite nostalgia. 

Ian

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, at 16:42, Fabian Keil wrote:
> If there are no objections I intend to remove OS/2 support
> before the next release.
> 
> We haven't provided OS/2 binary packages for a couple of
> years now and nobody has complained.
> 
> OS/2 support complicates the code and it relies on a
> snprintf() implementation (in miscutil.c) whose license
> is GPLv2 without upgrade option or "Frontier Artistic License".
> 
> The lack of the GPL upgrade option complicates the license terms
> for Privoxy and removing the snprintf() implementation and the
> OS/2 support that depends on it solves the issue.
> 
> Fabian
> 
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