From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@hofr.at>
Cc: dewar@adacore.com, dje@google.com, lokesh.gupta@gmail.com,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Tracepoints functionality for local targets
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JW7bS-0004RW-Dh@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0803020530250.1498@vlab.hofr.at> (message from Nicholas Mc Guire on Sun, 2 Mar 2008 05:41:35 -0900 (AKST))
The reason we ask for a copyright assignment or disclaimer before we
install code is because our lawyers tell us this is important for
enforcing the GPL in court. Many packages "get along without this"
because they do not trouble themselves about how they will do that.
The next version of GDB should be released under GPLv3 or later.
Therefore, a module released under GPLv2 _only_ can't be part of
modified GDB versions, unless you limit yourself to using the old
versions of GDB. And we certainly could not include it in GDB.
"GPLv2 only" is a free license but it is not a good way to do the job,
which is why we never do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 10:03 Lokesh Gupta
2008-02-26 18:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-26 18:39 ` Doug Evans
2008-03-01 19:29 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2008-03-01 19:43 ` Doug Evans
2008-03-02 8:50 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2008-03-02 11:37 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-02 13:37 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2008-03-02 14:00 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-03 10:09 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-03-03 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-04 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-27 1:06 ` Michael Snyder
2008-02-27 12:55 ` Lokesh Gupta
2008-02-27 22:00 ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-01 19:36 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
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