It has been decided a few weeks ago already [1] that DeforaOS would supply its libc [2] to the Whitix project [3]. A news should have been made here already to announce it, but time was scarce.

One reason for this is because of the infancy of the RunningBear project [4], for which DeforaOS is also supplying its libc and build system [5]. Cooperation should not stop here, and many other components may be developed and shared between the two projects.

The first consequence is the modification of the license terms for the complete DeforaOS project. It is now available again under the GPL license, version 3 [6] as published by the Free Software Foundation [7] (LGPL may eventually apply to library code). This is also thanks to Bearstech [8], who is driving the RunningBear project.

[1] http://www.whitix.org/pipermail/developers/2008-August/000088.html
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/project/14/libc
[3] http://www.whitix.org/
[4] http://runningbear.org/
[5] http://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/11/DeforaOS?file=/build.sh,v
[6] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
[7] http://www.fsf.org/
[8] http://bearstech.com/