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From: Elena Zannoni <elena.zannoni@oracle.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: frysk@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Disassembly source buffer and libopcodes
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CC5DF2.6060909@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187794289.3759.20.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org>

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Elena,
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:25 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>   
>>> Since Fedora did a license audit and found we were linking in libopcodes
>>> from binutils which is under GPL, but we distribute Frysk under GPL +
>>> Exception, automatic libopcode usage has been disabled (you need to
>>> configure --with-libopcodes to get it). 
>>>       
>> Thanks for discussing this on the mailing list, can you explain a bit 
>> more about it?
>> I wasn't aware of the audit, is this a RH thing? or a fedora thing? Does 
>> it impact frysk in other ways?
>>     
>
> It is a Fedora thing. They are cleaning up the package license tags:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LicenseTag
> This means all packages are audited now. The main Frysk license is GPL +
> Exception so we can link with non-gpl compatible code like eclipse. One
> of the maintainers noticed that we were using binutils (libopcodes)
> which is GPL-only though, so cannot be used in a larger work with EPL
> code.
>
>   
>> I assume this is reason for the change Andrew made on
>> August 16?
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/frysk-cvs/2007-q3/msg00648.html
>>
>> Is there any public discussion of the audit?
>>     
>
> fedora-devel and fedora-maintainers has lots, but those are super busy
> lists: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/
>
> This particular issue came up here first I believe:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-August/msg00264.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>   

Thanks, I see Andrew replied to that thread, so what is the impact on 
frysk?
Do we switch to GPLv3 or just ignore since we have our copy of 
libopcodes (and keep that at GPLv2?)



  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22 12:26 Mark Wielaard
2007-08-22 14:27 ` Elena Zannoni
2007-08-22 14:51   ` Mark Wielaard
2007-08-22 16:02     ` Elena Zannoni [this message]
2007-08-22 18:13       ` Mark Wielaard

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