From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6059 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2012 20:36:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 6045 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2012 20:36:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:35:50 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3IKZnR4020752 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:35:50 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3IKZlOJ005381; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:35:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4F8F25A3.9070502@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:36:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Gilmore CC: Tom Tromey , Jan Kratochvil , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process? References: <20120330161403.GA17891@host2.jankratochvil.net> <87aa2rjkb8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4F832D5B.9030308@redhat.com> <87d374pzqt.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <201204182030.q3IKUScF011625@new.toad.com> In-Reply-To: <201204182030.q3IKUScF011625@new.toad.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2012-04/txt/msg00142.txt.bz2 On 04/18/2012 09:30 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> It seems to me that we must have a licensing issue here. >> Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process? The IPA can also be injected into the target program with LD_PRELOAD. The user doesn't have to distribute the result, and indeed that would be shady area. But I think just using it like that falls into freedom 0. IANAL, and all that. -- Pedro Alves