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Re: libremote status?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Fred Viles <fv at epitools dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:30:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: libremote status?
- References: <3DA5D2A0.6277.13A0987@localhost>
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:18:56PM -0700, Fred Viles wrote:
> Dang, bitten by the listserver (and my inattention) again. Sorry for
> the PM, Chris.
>
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> From: Fred Viles <fv@epitools.com>
> To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: libremote status?
> Date sent: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:17:07 -0700
>
> On 9 Oct 2002 at 15:03, Christopher Faylor wrote about
> "Re: libremote status?":
>
> | On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:42:35PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> | >On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:39:53AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> | >I assume that, given the name change, there is no plan for RDA to be
> | >contributed to the FSF? And that, as such, there can be no effort to
> | >combine all this beautiful server architecture with the fact that we
> | >have a working gdbserver implementation, and active development on it?
> |
> | We will not be releasing this to the FSF, no. We still need to hold
> | the copyright for various reasons.
>
> OTOH, according to the comment blocks at the start of every file you
> are releasing it under the GPL. Doesn't that mean that it can be
> incorporated into other GPL'ed projects pretty much without
> additional restriction? I obviously son't understand the issues
> here...
In general, yes; GNU projects, no. Remember the oft-mentioned
copyright assignment forms? It's FSF policy (usually) that the FSF
hold copyright on the entire source base of a GNU project like GDB.
It's a reasonable policy; it gives the FSF close control over licensing
issues and centralizes copyright defense if it should become necessary.
I believe those are the reasons.
[And I want to apologize again to Chris and others for my tone in that
quote; I do really appreciate the work they've done to get this project
released to the community.]
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer