RE: dump memory to file

[Hiro Sugawara <hsugawar@brocade.com>]

Ah, our understanding of GPL was, "Okay, my change is now a part of
GDB. We are happy to give the source code to you at a nominal cost
if you purchase our binary. And you are free to use, modify, and/or
redistribute the source code, but we are not mandated to give away
the source for free to the general public."

I think the LynxOS license package already includes all the GPL
sources or LynuxWorks offers source CDs to its customers. But I am
no longer with them and do not know for sure...

hiro

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Edwards [ mailto:grante@visi.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:54
> To: Kevin Buettner
> Cc: Hiro Sugawara; gdb@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: dump memory to file
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> > > Since gdb is GPL'd, and LynuxWorks is distributing the LynxOS
> > > version of gdb, then the sources must be available, right?
> > 
> > Right.
> > 
> > However, for such a change to be incorporated into GDB, the
> > author(s) of the change must have a copyright assignment in
> > place with the FSF. Sometimes it quite challenging to make sure
> > that all of the legal documents are signed by the right
> > people...
> 
> OK, let me see if I've got this: LynuxWorks can't not
> distribute the changes, and they can't prevent anybody else
> from distributing them, but the changes won't be incorporated
> into the official sources without a copyright assignment.
> 
> I just went through the whole copyright assignment thing with
> my employer so I could donate some stuff to eCos.  It took
> years and cost thousands of lives.
> 
> Well... it did take almost a year.
> 
> Unless LynuxWorks is already set up to do stuff like that, it
> would be easier for me to just impliment it on my own.  I
> suppose it won't hurt to ask them -- I'm pretty sure I've got a
> business card from that Embedded Systems Conference...
> 
> -- 
> Grant Edwards
> grante@visi.com
>