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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2008 21:11:10 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        jb@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdwarf Makefile _libdwarf.h dwarf.h dwarf_abbrev.c dwarf_attr.c dwarf_attrval.c dwarf_cu.c dwarf_dealloc.c dwarf_die.c dwarf_dump.c dwarf_errmsg.c dwarf_errno.c dwarf_finish.c dwarf_form.c dwarf_init.c dwarf_loc.c ...
Message-ID:  <20080521.211110.-749259186.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200805220214.m4M2EYTM061847@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200805220214.m4M2EYTM061847@repoman.freebsd.org>

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In message: <200805220214.m4M2EYTM061847@repoman.freebsd.org>
            John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
:   The API for this library is deliberately different to the GPL'd
:   libdwarf to avoid licensing problems.

What licensing problems does it avoid?  APIs can't be copyrighted, and
therefore can't be GPL'd.

Warner



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