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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:25:44 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        Patrik Sundberg <ps@radiac.mine.nu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: valgrind
Message-ID:  <3C7D1698.28A1ABB1@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202271056400.45612-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>

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Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> I'm working on porting this right now.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Afaik, the patches can remain part of the ports tree without problems.

Add a dlopen-based module interface?

-- Terry

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