From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14638 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2002 03:21:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14597 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2002 03:21:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rj.sgi.com) (204.94.215.100) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2002 03:21:30 -0000 Received: from rock.csd.sgi.com (fddi-rock.csd.sgi.com [130.62.69.10]) by rj.sgi.com (8.11.4/8.11.4/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id g0Q3LTY01247; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:21:29 -0800 Received: from piet1.csd.sgi.com (piet1.csd.sgi.com [130.62.73.47]) by rock.csd.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA41950; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from piet@localhost) by piet1.csd.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA66416; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:21:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:21:00 -0000 From: Piet/Pete Delaney To: Salman Khilji Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Questions for GDB Developers Message-ID: <20020125192127.B66623@sgi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00307.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:12:35AM +0000, Salman Khilji wrote: > I did a little reading on the licensing and yes it does seem that lifting > the code and creating a proprietory "real-time data monitor" would be > against the licensing. Why do you think that? I've been of the impression that you can't take even part of the code. I don't even know if you can call binutils without the code having to be copyleft. I recall hearing of other programs having to remove calls to GNU libraries just to stay out of the copyleft restristions. I would think it even in the spirit of the GNU license that anything intended to bolt into gdb, like ddd or a stub should also have to be covered by these concepts. Isn't the idea to build a free and open software environment? -piet