Jason House wrote:
I was chatting on #gdb earlier today and it sounds like getting a patch for the
d programming language into gdb shouldn't be too bad. There's a patches
mailing list and some kind of paperwork to resolve copyright issues.
Is there any legal/copyright issues that prevent the gdb patch from making it
into gdb? Maybe demangling uses digital mars code? I'd really love to see
complete support for D in gdb. It's really frustrating to not have it :(
The FSF usually wants to own the copyright on the relevant code. That
way, it's free to relicense stuff -- though public domain is good enough
for that. Also, that way, the FSF has standing in case it has to go to
court over the code -- but for public domain code, that isn't an issue,
because absolutely everyone is allowed to use that code in any way they
want.
