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RE: dump memory to file
- To: "'Grant Edwards'" <grante at visi dot com>, Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: dump memory to file
- From: Hiro Sugawara <hsugawar at brocade dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:01:25 -0700
- Cc: Hiro Sugawara <hsugawar at brocade dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Ah, our understanding of GPL was, "Okay, my change is now a part of
GDB. We are happy to give the source code to you at a nominal cost
if you purchase our binary. And you are free to use, modify, and/or
redistribute the source code, but we are not mandated to give away
the source for free to the general public."
I think the LynxOS license package already includes all the GPL
sources or LynuxWorks offers source CDs to its customers. But I am
no longer with them and do not know for sure...
hiro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Edwards [mailto:grante@visi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:54
> To: Kevin Buettner
> Cc: Hiro Sugawara; gdb@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: dump memory to file
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
> > > Since gdb is GPL'd, and LynuxWorks is distributing the LynxOS
> > > version of gdb, then the sources must be available, right?
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > However, for such a change to be incorporated into GDB, the
> > author(s) of the change must have a copyright assignment in
> > place with the FSF. Sometimes it quite challenging to make sure
> > that all of the legal documents are signed by the right
> > people...
>
> OK, let me see if I've got this: LynuxWorks can't not
> distribute the changes, and they can't prevent anybody else
> from distributing them, but the changes won't be incorporated
> into the official sources without a copyright assignment.
>
> I just went through the whole copyright assignment thing with
> my employer so I could donate some stuff to eCos. It took
> years and cost thousands of lives.
>
> Well... it did take almost a year.
>
> Unless LynuxWorks is already set up to do stuff like that, it
> would be easier for me to just impliment it on my own. I
> suppose it won't hurt to ask them -- I'm pretty sure I've got a
> business card from that Embedded Systems Conference...
>
> --
> Grant Edwards
> grante@visi.com
>