Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 03:24:59 +0000 From: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> 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: <20080522032459.GA70486@what-creek.com> In-Reply-To: <20080521.211110.-749259186.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200805220214.m4M2EYTM061847@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080521.211110.-749259186.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > 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. People still put restrictive licenses on headers which define APIs. I don't want to have to argue whether it is legal for them to restrict things like that or not. So I just avoid the problem. -- John Birrell
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