From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12357 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2007 22:51:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 12348 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Feb 2007 22:51:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:51:17 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l11MpCOp005074; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:51:12 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l11MpAYG002283; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:51:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:51:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200702012251.l11MpAYG002283@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: veenu_khanna@yahoo.com CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20070131150448.GA24917@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:04:48 -0500) Subject: Re: GDB Stub & GPL question References: <256227.64036.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> <20070131150448.GA24917@nevyn.them.org> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:04:48 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > Another question is regarding GPL... some part of stub code will > > be residing in our kernel which is proprietary. Does that mean we > > will have to release the code for kernel as well ? > > If you copy the stub from the GDB source tree, then yes you would > have a GPL problem. I recommend writing one from scratch, instead, > based on the documentation - that's what most people seem to do. > The examples in GDB are quite old. I actually recommend releasing all your code under the GPL. (sorry couldn't resist) Mark