From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 27 8:28:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from raquel.radiac.mine.nu (h249n3fls22o980.telia.com [213.65.210.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6808437B405; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:28:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ps@localhost) by raquel.radiac.mine.nu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1RGbFg47260; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:37:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ps) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:37:15 +0100 From: Patrik Sundberg To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: valgrind Message-ID: <20020227163714.GA47240@raquel.radiac.mine.nu> References: <20020227151310.GA47084@raquel.radiac.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >=20 > I'm working on porting this right now. great news! what is the current status and have you set up a website for the project or will it be a "simple" portsentry with some patches? (I thought it would require some more rewriting than a usual port+patches, but= I could be wrong, haven't looked at the code yet). > Be forewarned, though, that the FreeBSD hacks for this tool will > *never* be allowed into the main distro. Why? Licence. Valgrind > includes some code from the Linux kernel and libc. When we hack it for > FreeBSD, we'll end up putting some BSD-licenced code into a GPL > product. Obviously, this will cause problems. as long as it can exist in the ports-collection I will be more than pleased. --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------. Patrik Sundberg Address: Rydsv=E4gen 100C, 584 31 Link=F6ping, Sweden = | Email: ps@raditex.se || ps@radiac.mine.nu | Phone: +46 13 178567 || +46 707 602240 | =2E---> Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering student = | |-----> Master of Science in Business Administration and Economics student | |-------> UNIX/Programming consultant | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message