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Re: LGPL libbfd
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:13:04AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:10:41AM +0100, clemens wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > One task of winebuild is to analyse wine elf-libraries for exported dll
> > symbols. Currently it is parsing the output of nm to achive this.
> > As I need to improve winebuild for my further work I don't want that way,
> > but instead call libbfd directly.
>
> If you want to analyze ELF libraries, use libelf, not libbfd.
> But you'll have the same problem: libelf is GPL too.
>
This is what i've been probably asking for:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Herein the modified BSD license is referred as GPL compatible, which means i
can link a module covered under these licenses to a GPL-covered module.
Although the wine license is slightly different, it is known to be a
BSD-styled licenses, which I think of is compatible with GNU GPL.
Can anyone clarify on this issue, or give an ok as a spokesman for the
libbfd section to me to link with the supposedly GPL-compatible wine
license?
Clemens
p.s.: please cc, not on the list. can't we just invent an acronym for this
always repeating sentence.. like "ccnotl".?