glibc
System software
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library. It is a wrapper around the system calls of the Linux kernel for application use. Despite its name, it now also directly supports C++. Wikipedia
Developer(s): GNU Project, most contributions by Ulrich Drepper
Initial release: 1987; 37 years ago
License: 2001: LGPL-2.1-or-later; 1992: LGPL-2.0-or-later
Operating system: Unix-like
Original author(s): Roland McGrath
Repository: sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Stable release: 2.39 / 31 January 2024