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Re: Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process?

From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
To: John Gilmore <gnu at toad dot com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:35:47 +0100
Subject: Re: Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process?
References: <20120330161403.GA17891@host2.jankratochvil.net> <87aa2rjkb8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4F832D5B.9030308@redhat.com> <87d374pzqt.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <201204182030.q3IKUScF011625@new.toad.com>

On 04/18/2012 09:30 PM, John Gilmore wrote:

>> It seems to me that we must have a licensing issue here.
>> Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process?

The IPA can also be injected into the target program with LD_PRELOAD.
The user doesn't have to distribute the result, and indeed that would
be shady area.  But I think just using it like that falls into freedom 0.
IANAL, and all that.

-- 
Pedro Alves

References:
- Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
  - From: Pedro Alves
- Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Can it really be ok to map GPL'd code into any old process?
  - From: John Gilmore

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