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- From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
- Subject: Re: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)
- References: <1993Jan24.205213.14915@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <HUTTAR.93Jan25164454@hp750.itg.ti.com> <FRANL.93Jan27115049@draco.centerline.com>
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- Organization: Computer Based Education Research Lab - University of Illinois
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:07:03 GMT
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- In article <FRANL.93Jan27115049@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
- >I thought that HP was refusing to "free" its debugger symbol table
- >format (specifically the header file that defines all of the debugger
- >symbol data structures). That would mean no Gnu product can read or
- >write HP debug info, because the FSF won't use code that isn't free,
- >and because HP won't let their debug info format be given away under
- >the FSF Copyleft.
-
- Assuming the header files are available on any HP systems that you'd want
- to use it on, there wouldn't be any problem. Remember the GPL clause that
- excepts libraries and header files that are normally distributed with
- the operating system and compiler (I may be misquoting slightly, but
- I'm sure I have the general intent).
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- Steve Peltz
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