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Re: gdbstubs library posted at sourceforge
- To: Jim Kingdon <kingdon at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: gdbstubs library posted at sourceforge
- From: jtc at redback dot com (J.T. Conklin)
- Date: 27 Jan 2000 12:22:31 -0800
- Cc: gatliff at haulpak dot com, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200001271910.OAA04242@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
- Reply-To: jtc at redback dot com
WG> The release license is LGPL.
Jim> Are you sure you want this rather than public domain (as the
Jim> stubs in the GDB distribution) or XFree86-style? I suppose maybe
Jim> it is a moot point if people leave out the stubs when they
Jim> actually ship code, but in general, the LGPL's requirement that
Jim> people make available .o's makes it somewhat impractical for many
Jim> embedded applications.
I don't know if we're typical, but we leave in our debug stubs in our
production images. If a customer reports a problem, we want to debug
the exact same code the customer is running. Rebuilding that version
with a debug stub has the potential of changing way too many things.
--jtc
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J.T. Conklin
RedBack Networks