Castor Fu wrote:

>
> Would it be possible to modify the license for crash so extensions
> would not be subject to the GPL?  Our developers create extensions
> which use our proprietary source code, and while they are most
> useful in-house, it'd be nice to be able to ship them to customers.
>

I am not a lawyer, nor am I an open source zealot, but the
crash utility is subject to the GPL due to the embedded gdb
module.  Given that any extension would be in all probability
require a gdb service, how could you work around that?

Dave


>
> We're certainly interested in contributing back generically useful code,
> but this would be a 'nice to have'.
>
> I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure how to modify the license, but I could
> ask people here for help if this seems reasonable.
>
>     -castor
>
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