From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18084 invoked by alias); 28 May 2003 19:27:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17942 invoked from network); 28 May 2003 19:27:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 May 2003 19:27:17 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A252B2F; Wed, 28 May 2003 15:27:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3ED50D8E.4070405@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:27:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJ Delorie Cc: mrs@apple.com, neroden@twcny.rr.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Libiberty license roundup (questions/potential problems) References: <849AB456-8D7A-11D7-8138-003065A77310@apple.com> <3ECEC98A.7040906@redhat.com> <200305240134.h4O1YTc21104@greed.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00369.txt.bz2 >> > * No license, FSF copyright >> > vfprintf.c >> > >> > This was written by us for us. I think it should be GPL with exception. > >> >> GPL. > > > We've already had a few cases where we've had to convert GPL to GPL > with exception. It might be prudent of us to, if we're fiddling with > copyrights anyway, to start with GPL+e this time. Especially with the > trivial functions, where there is little to be gained by enforcing the > GPL and a lot to be gained by making it easy for people to justify > using GNU software. It is always easier to weaken a license. I think it is easierr to start with something safe. Andrew