From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 27 8:43: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B5637B41C; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1RGgdL63704; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:42:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:42:39 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Patrik Sundberg , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: valgrind Message-ID: <20020227114239.A63680@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020227151310.GA47084@raquel.radiac.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:00:14AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@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: > 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. Actually, this doesn't cause as many as you might think. GPL'd code can swallow BSDL'd code. BSDL'd code cannot swallow GPL'd code. You could probably get your code assimilated into the main valgrind distro. FreeBSD also includes (among others) gdb, which is GPL'd. Since valgrind is not necessary to run a minimal FreeBSD install, it's OK. (Note that I'm not advocating assimilating it into the main system, I'm just saying that the license isn't an impediment. :-) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message