On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:54:59PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:27:41PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > > [...] > > >> It matters in that valgrind's not a useful source of code to steal > >> (unless some agreement could be reached with the author, of course, > >> which might well be possible) since it's GNU GPL. > > > > You can link GPL and LGPL code without any problem. But I've to look > > at the GNU GPL better to see if it is possible to link GPL'd code > > with plex86 if it is running on a host OS with a GPL incompatible > > license. > > I don't see why this should be a problem (there's no problem running > Emacs on Microsoft Windows, for example).
But plex86 is a bit different from emacs, plex86 needs to "intergrate" with windows to do its job if I'm right. That means a GPL volitation. I don't have any knowledge about windows, can somebody tell me how the interface works on that platform? > My point was solely that if plex86 were to want to use code from > valgrind (specifically the code that relatively efficiently emulates > x86 code), then the result would be covered by the GNU GPL (unless the > author of valgrind could be persuaded to offer the code under the > Lesser license). > > So if plex86 is to remain under the LGPL, then looking at valgrind > code wouldn't be useful. Looking at code is always useful IMHO. :-) We can still license the current plex86 code under the LGPL and have the valgrind code in a seperate directory under the GPL and just make a configure option for it. > (Of course, as I understand it, plex86 isn't supposed to do > interpreting much---that's what bochs is for---plex86 is supposed to > be executing code directly as much as possible, in much the same way > that VMWare does. I suspect, though, valgrind's operation is quite > similar to what plex86 will have to do, and so there'd be a useful > overlap.) Yes, that's true. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
