On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:37:47PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:02:02PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > > It's probably not all that big a job to backport my change to GDB > > 6.x. > > > For that matter, anyone else can do that once I contribute the > change > > to > > > the current GDB. > > > > Actually, there's another problem. If you contribute copyright in > this > > change to FSF, and that's the only way you're going to distribute it, > > it > > will end up available under GPLv3 only and thus unuseful for backport > > to > > the GPLv2 GDB in NetBSD. :-/ > > Oops. You're right. > > It looks like the backport is pretty straightforward. I'll take a look > at the current GDB that NetBSD is using. I could post the diffs along > with the kernel proposal.
That would be fantastic. I hope you can eventually make that version of the diff available under a license compatible with either GPLv2 or a BSD-style license, just to clear up any ambiguity. -- Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] "All of my opinions are consistent, but I cannot present them all at once." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On The Social Contract
