From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10126 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2006 15:41:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 10005 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Mar 2006 15:41:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:41:26 +0000 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:41:24 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: , Subject: RE: how to get uptodate vxworks gdb source code Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:41:00 -0000 Message-ID: <037d01c63e0f$c3000db0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20060302153123.51251.qmail@web51109.mail.yahoo.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 On 02 March 2006 15:31, D.J. Barrow wrote: > Hi Dave, > From my understanding of GPL they have to make the sources freely > available to everyone, the licence is supposed to be infectious Your understanding is seriously wrong, and the bit about 'infectious' is a bit of dark propaganda made up by opponents of the GPL. The GPL is as I described it in my last post: *if* you distribute, in any fashion, a binary version of a GPL'd program to someone, *then* you must also supply, or offer to supply, to that same someone, the exact sources from which that binary was built. You have no obligations to anyone you do not distribute binaries to. > Gnu wouldn't neuter this licence. They haven't done, you've misunderstood its intent. You now need to take two steps: #1. Take this discussion to one of the gpl discussion lists, as it no longer has any relevance to GDB. #2. Go read the GPL FAQ at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html, it should clarify your understanding of the rights and obligations under the GPL. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....