> This file seems to have an unclear license. It says "license
> GPLWithACException" in the header, but with no further explanation. Remember
> that we avoid *GPL licensed code in this project!
>

Daniel,

Sorry about that. I'll remove that in the next version

Here are the existing work items on the patch, as I see it:
  * make it compile on systems without pthreads and not Windows
  * pthread detection must be rewritten to not be GPL
  * detect thread safe resolver on POSIX as follows:
    * the presence of gethostbyname_r API
    * Mac OS X/FreeBSD 5.3 or above - whitelist getaddrinfo as thread safe
  * disable thread resolver on POSIX by default except if we detect
thread safe resolve
  * change hostthre.c to use getaddrinfo even for IPv4 if present and
platform is thread-safe
      * otherwise fallback to gethostbyname_r on UNIX or gethostbyname
on Windows
      * to support this change, need a version of addrinfo_callback
that works with Curl_addrinfo * no matter what the compile options
(IPv6 or not) are...

I'll get to it this weekend unless somebody wants to take this over.

-Costa
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