Re: [Nasm-devel] [Nasm-bugs] [ nasm-Feature Requests-1764085 ] Mach-O 64-bit object support

[anonymous c. <nas...@us...>]

>> How about providing an out_bfd.c that is part of NASM and thus
>> under the LGPL, which successfully links against the bfd library
>> that is under GPL, i.e. pushing that decision/step onto the user?
>
> That would make it highly impractical to release binaries;

Unfortunately.

> I also consider that a GPL violation in spirit at the very least.

Both the GPL and LGPL require that source code be available.

Oh well. I was just wondering. Trying to stay in sync with bfd is
probably as difficult, as trying to maintain your own tree...