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Re: bfd: GPL or LGPL?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:43:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: bfd: GPL or LGPL?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302131132380.21272-100000@eos>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41:19AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
> I am having problems identifying the license covering bfd. Is it GPL or
> LGPL?
It is licensed under the GPL.
> Also, are there any projects that use it but do not build it in their
> tree? What is the recommended method for doing so?
>
> I am porting libdwarf to read coff using bfd instead of elf and would
> like to link the result to a closed source application.
You can't do that, sorry.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer