Re: CVS commit: src/gnu

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 06:46:07PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > Indeed, it doesn't use libbfd but just GPLv2'ed.
> > > As you said we should move only mdsetimage and dbsym into external/gpl3.
> > 
> > Do we need that for any non-elf targets?
> > If not, porting to FreeBSD's libelf might be an option.
> 
> It looks authors chose GPLv2 regardless of ELF support.
> (though we might be able to ask to change their license)

mdsetimage started off as BSD licenced, and I convinced the author to
allow to be dual licenced (or changed to GPL2 - I don't recall) so that
it could use libbfd and then used as a cross-build tool.  I then wrote a
new dbsym based on mdsetimage.

If they were converted to use libelf, mdsetimage is already clear to
use a BSD licence and if dbsym isn't BSD licenced I obviously have no
problem re-licencing it :-)

Cheers,
Simon.