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Re: GDB Stub & GPL question
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: veenu_khanna at yahoo dot com
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:51:11 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: GDB Stub & GPL question
- References: <256227.64036.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> <20070131150448.GA24917@nevyn.them.org>
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:04:48 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> > Another question is regarding GPL... some part of stub code will
> > be residing in our kernel which is proprietary. Does that mean we
> > will have to release the code for kernel as well ?
>
> If you copy the stub from the GDB source tree, then yes you would
> have a GPL problem. I recommend writing one from scratch, instead,
> based on the documentation - that's what most people seem to do.
> The examples in GDB are quite old.
I actually recommend releasing all your code under the GPL.
(sorry couldn't resist)
Mark