From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31024 invoked by alias); 5 May 2010 05:04:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 30831 invoked by uid 22791); 5 May 2010 05:04:04 -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; Wed, 05 May 2010 05:04:01 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF0A1B4037; Wed, 5 May 2010 05:03:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: libsim licensing (and bfd by extension) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 05:04:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.33.2; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org References: <201005041952.22036.vapier@gentoo.org> <20100505031217.GA1164@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20100505031217.GA1164@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart70728283.uHbuUTmDp3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005050104.01177.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/msg00028.txt.bz2 --nextPart70728283.uHbuUTmDp3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1127 On Tuesday 04 May 2010 23:12:28 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 07:52:14PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > does this have any chance of happening ? or should i just say screw it > > and post a toplevel sim/COPYING patch ;). >=20 > Pretty much, no. The FSF is always very resistant to a GPL -> LGPL > switch and you haven't given any reason that would fit the FSF's > goals. Also bits of sim are copyright others besides the FSF. the open source group at my company has created an open source simulator in= =20 parallel to an older existing closed source simulator. the purpose would b= e=20 to get the proprietary closed source product to stop using its closed sourc= e=20 simulator and convert to the open source sim. but there isnt incentive to= =20 convert the rest of the product stack over to open source (yet?), and=20 obviously linking in a GPL libsim wouldnt work in this situation. oh well, we still have access to the GDB machine interface, so the end goal= =20 can still be accomplished albeit not as cleanly. assuming we can still=20 convince internal people to do the conversion. -mike --nextPart70728283.uHbuUTmDp3 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) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJL4PxBAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBlhgQAIKr7bx26czCD9b2sExO6dRi /inzFLh3xCTCmBQgApTgJwvwfrvOflahuZS26srh0sLQTd/vpc17fOaDEM6hSO/N Oyzj1iAmZxb4o+pqIfQDUT0OCDXlGkMEwq4ezGiVlH1yi4vdDjKcMK8BNhhPh81C beQnGvcdkKUVezUWCIHJME85/WO65LE6D2HhyldMILicwC/Wm3tNwq/0qSbFD4a7 0NRv82anSqu3PzWByyJ14G/GypM73KTwEXVzK6aZCpkyKWSf1ViIWNOeAd+JfCEM /Qe0YBs2EGuWtZqoK3V4cEzxfInUu7ZW4cMaYx0nPHTjEmDCj76zUayKAtQnhPbt ri/w5Fsoxw2O/5Ley5NgAKiHnOyxlElPm72w0nu8Ek8PyHVkcb2odx0akkaRkwHR Z6yZdQGCYGeCjGKXeC1jWj/59mYmm40gl+7uBM2xBAe26q2qW4/67V1ZLXxmfe/T 3ybty9h/Qe18WstXQXb30J5mGqQThJPikIdxKb73pDqYuZJ1/dKxjrwT4wu2hD+f vAuq5VwBa9w+HA3nOkhBxisnA8dsLHixgtK9/VRjoQmnMfSyKTc9PfBBh7qvpzPd YymDjGh58Hrn7n8eJA5UtKkmhgd8EL0ExZvEm4HKx51b58ggbsLcqz0pCx+BcEFH AmgI6XKdI/xydKQnVfH5 =7u/S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart70728283.uHbuUTmDp3--