From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28566 invoked by alias); 5 May 2010 03:12:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 28549 invoked by uid 22791); 5 May 2010 03:12:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 May 2010 03:12:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 9124 invoked from network); 5 May 2010 03:12:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 5 May 2010 03:12:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 03:12:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mike Frysinger Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: libsim licensing (and bfd by extension) Message-ID: <20100505031217.GA1164@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Frysinger , gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org References: <201005041952.22036.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201005041952.22036.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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/msg00025.txt.bz2 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 ;). 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery