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To: Joachim Protze <joachim.protze@tu-dresden.de>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Licencing policy for gdb Python plugins
References: <4FFC2F18.9000708@tu-dresden.de>
From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:34:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4FFC2F18.9000708@tu-dresden.de> (Joachim Protze's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:33:12 +0200")
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Joachim Protze <joachim.protze@tu-dresden.de> writes:

> [...]  while the discussion in the last session of the GNU cauldron,
> the question raised, whether there is a licencing policy for Python
> plugins, [...]

Unless one believes the gdb plugin api is copyrightable in its own
right (and thus license compatibility comes up), perhaps discussion
should be limited to how the gdb project would accept said plugins as
a contribution.


- FChE