On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 07:28:22PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:40 PM, David T. Lewis <
[hidden email]> wrote:
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> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:09:16PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > >
> > > Just in case anyone is watching and feels like heroically cleaning up a
> > load of code; the madly hacked about gdb source tree with everything
> > removed that I could summon the enthusiasm for deleting and that doesn?t
> > seem to be needed is now in our svn tree.
> > > I also cleaned up the arm sim code etc a little so that we no longer
> > need a rather arcane gcc trick of wrapping functions.
> > >
> >
> > The gdb-7.6 sources are GPL licensed (not LGPL). You will want to ensure
> > that they do not start appearing in source code distributions for Cog/Spur.
> >
>
> The reasoning has been that since the plugins are used for developing the
> VM, and are stand alone DLLs, not for deploying the system, that we are
> safe. But are you suggesting that for clarity the gdb code should not be
> included, but downloaded from elsewhere? That seems a little pointless to
> me, but my arm can be twisted.
>
It is probably fine, given that the gdb code is separate from the platforms
and src trees. We just have to be careful that someone does not accidentally
include it in a Linux source distribution, or perhaps accidentally include
the plugin as an internal plugin, or something of that nature.
I am not an expert in this area, I just know that GPL can be invasive so
I wanted to mention it as a caution.
Dave
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