[fpc-pascal] Re: Pathscale: alternative debugger on Linux?

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 15:50:35 CET 2012


On 12-11-2012 15:37, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> On 12/11/2012 13:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 12-11-2012 13:51, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>> On 11/11/2012 08:48, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> BTW, I noticed some threads on the Phoronix forum going on about GPL
>> code being injected into compiled code, which would "contaminate" the
>> entire binary with the GPL license, so no chance to create a MIT/BSD etc
>> licensed binary.
> 
> Well I haven't looked at the code but I think 3.3 implies, that the GPL portions
> can only use binary linking to pre-compiled Pathscale portions (i.e. have to have
> their own lib wrappers?) 
> 
> Any idea what the actual portions covered by Pathscale license are ?
No.
> 
>>
>> Haven't looked into it further because I only wanted to point out the
>> debugger could perhaps be a useful alternative to gdb...
>>
> 
> Depends if the debugger is covered by GPL or the Pathscale portions, I think.
No, I don't think so. Either way I can use it for my internal business
purposes, if only in binary form.
Other people can download it and use it as well, etc.



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