From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30520 invoked by alias); 4 May 2010 23:52:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 30503 invoked by uid 22791); 4 May 2010 23:52:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 May 2010 23:52:24 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724791B4017; Tue, 4 May 2010 23:52:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: libsim licensing (and bfd by extension) Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 23:52:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.33.2; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: binutils@sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3243299.bRnDeDkpxp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005041952.22036.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-05/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 --nextPart3243299.bRnDeDkpxp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 947 the current sim/ subdir lacks an upfront statement as to its licensing (whi= ch=20 is to say there is no COPYING file). some sim-subdirs even have their own= =20 COPYING file. if we go by the source files, the overall license appears to= be=20 GPL-3 (some are GPL-2+). what i think would be nice is if the libsim interface was granted an except= ion=20 to be used under the LGPL-3. by itself, this wouldnt be of value because=20 libsim requires libbfd which is under the GPL-3. so there would need to be= a=20 minor grant where libbfd would not incur GPL-3 on everything else when it i= s=20 being pulled in purely for libsim's needs. obviously this would not apply = if=20 the code linking against libsim also used bfd symbols directly. while libsim also uses libiberty, that is under LGPL-2.1, so that's done. does this have any chance of happening ? or should i just say screw it and= =20 post a toplevel sim/COPYING patch ;). -mike --nextPart3243299.bRnDeDkpxp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJL4LM1AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB0qUQANqukw/iERsCOtiRktuWXdqW Vu+sWxzdYJp0U8hKT4kxXSdPvJTEGeaeA+Qh1vB5fnhhRWSoDxkb1G6KPhHdd90J +NQZqjMW7Kw99F1OUwObo/tTjsMOW03sLvSL5fdWzFiIdG9RYvy2GLKnNAFLGhb3 WzqHbyFFTn4tLHb5UvKEVjmzOfqDqGv0r5Jy+EyPPZEahgD6Al8EO/HbYkVzTTL1 b7AQ14EwASdxNPQN5eLFvPPyz0yH/xW0OWWsHq9YNEP8BMYySdCfd/4DHqhqVv0m 5Q3YKUFtatNqjR20PUGEZcbYCpm4v4OY+tWMFCbyMOLk9waand4+Os1i8U48nWvI My4U0pn42I6/ukIbo9cktFM9VAaVoMquPyAfhArqGtP3KjwuiDi1P8yJbuuxfX2X PIL0DoTqStcBeNPXCYQ5KqTVKw9vtrWP68mUfWhI9VtrT7/kK5uxkNZxS4cmyz/G LxUSX66s60LDqnttSdK8Vtb3nAcAt8O7/XraAwG0uR2sgLRkuxBeGDJ7N9l1afHf 7g0Trd8+wNFAw3+97UA0weexutEGeeRf31WEUzUOpQr5X3FVODBRfbbSmOmp7UmP S2OP/21+RiwOKIHUJrF+LbllFRTG3Ps8RiZoOCp7/vo+ej3yQdksoCX9HXLKQ3OA jUYimouZ2D1cCBNlBy3F =U3fL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3243299.bRnDeDkpxp--