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Overview

Expand and enhance the capabilities of the GNU C Library (GLIBC) to support embedded systems for diverse environments, and maintain an open development environment encouraging broad, cooperative developer participation.

Free Software Goals

• Support the goals of the GNU project, as defined by the FSF.
• Library is available under the terms of the (L)GPL.
• Copyright for the library to be held by the FSF.

Design Goals

• Provide options to reduce on-disk and in-memory footprint.
• Support cross-compilation and cross-validation.
• Support processors used in embedded systems.
• Incorporate support for processor-specific functionality where appropriate.
• Retain API and ABI compatability with GLIBC wherever feasible.

Development Environment

• All patches assigned to the FSF will be considered regardless of individual or company affiliation.
• Encourage cooperation, communication, civility, and respect among developers.