From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17917 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2008 10:09:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 17902 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Mar 2008 10:09:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:09:05 +0000 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JW7bS-0004RW-Dh; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:09:02 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 From: Richard Stallman To: Nicholas Mc Guire CC: dewar@adacore.com, dje@google.com, lokesh.gupta@gmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Nicholas Mc Guire on Sun, 2 Mar 2008 05:41:35 -0900 (AKST)) Subject: Re: Tracepoints functionality for local targets Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <21b011a40802260027r596c2c0bt96339538b8e5cc92@mail.gmail.com> <20080226131031.GA9105@caradoc.them.org> <47CA9144.6040209@adacore.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:09:00 -0000 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: 2008-03/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 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.