From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3986 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2006 21:25:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 3947 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2006 21:25:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from N402a.n.pppool.de (HELO [89.50.64.42]) (89.50.64.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:25:22 +0000 Message-ID: <44495B98.7010407@kuehne.cn> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:25:00 -0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=FChne?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060420 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: D Symbol Demangling References: <44462A40.1040004@kuehne.cn> <20060420132004.GB11710@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060420132004.GB11710@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Unfortunately, there are several major problems with accepting this > code. > > 1. Neither you nor John has an FSF copyright assignment in place. If > you're interested in one, let me know and I can send you the forms. > > 2. The demangler would need to be contributed to the FSF and licensed > under the GPL before we could include it with GDB. That doesn't > prevent another copy of it from being used under a different license > elsewhere; but you wouldn't be able to import fixes from one to the > other, in either direction. I've no problem with assigning the copyright of the demangler to the FSF if the license issue - as you noted, using more than one license might cause problems - can be solved. The GPL with linking exception would seem to be the best solution for all. (taken from /usr/portage/licenses/GPL-2-with-linking-exception) | As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you | permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an | executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, | and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your | choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, | the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent | module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If | you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of | the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do | so, delete this exception statement from your version. > 3. The code would need to match the GNU Coding Standards. > > 4. A patch would need to be generated against HEAD, not against an old > release. working on that > And, no offense, but the DD_() thing is horribly ugly and doesn't seem > to serve any purpose here. Is that for reusing the demangler > elsewhere? Yes it's ugly and not the kind of code I normally write. The problem: the demangler is currently used with GDB, Valgrind and 3 in-house tools - thus name and symbol clashes are a real problem. Thomas