Re: OProfile Library licenses

[Will C. <wc...@re...>]

John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:06:25PM -0400, Will Cohen wrote:
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>>There is interest in using OProfile with Eclipse as a plug-in. Rather 
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> I'd go have a look but they insist on some password crap to get at the
> archives. Useless.

This was some discussion at Red Hat. I don't know if it there is any 
mention of it on the Eclipse archives. I find the passwd required access 
annoying also.

>>At some point I would expect the libraries to be made available for 
>>other applications. The question is what license is going to be used for 
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>>e.g. bfd and iberty, and that might affect the license.
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> The binutils license is GPL so that's what we have to use. If somebody
> makes a backend under some other license, I wouldn't personally have a
> problem with dual-licensing some stuff, though I'm not sure about BSD
> ...
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> But with binutils it's academic anyway.
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> Dunno what Phil thinks
> 
> regards
> john

Another concern is the name collisions in the libraries. There is 
already a /usr/lib/libutil.a. I would suggest that the name libutil.a 
mutate to liboputil.a. While I am at it libutil++.a becomes 
liboputil++.a, libabi.a becomes libopabi.a, and libpp.a becomes liboppp.a

-Will