Re: [Valgrind-developers] Using objdump code for disassembly

[Paul F. <pj...@wa...>]

On 6/1/25 15:22, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> I think an upgrade to GPLv3+ for valgrind is a good idea. It would
> also allow us to upgrade some gdbserver parts (various files under
> coregrind/m_gdbserver). Note that the new vgstack utility is already
> derived from GPLv3+ code.
>
> We could make that a goal for 3.26.0 (or maybe that deserves finally
> going to 4.0?) for our October release. I can contact the FSF legal
> team to ask if they want to help with or see any issues with such an
> upgrade if we want to incorporate more GPLv3+ code from the core
> toolchain projects.

Hi all

Licence-wise, I don't have much of an opinion. It would be nice to be 
able to integrate code more easily.

There are two kinds of projects that might get impacted. Third-party 
ports, I guess they will just accept moving to GPL3+. Then there is VEX. 
The main project that I know of is PyVEX https://github.com/angr/pyvex 
which seems to be under a BSD licence. That looks wrong to me to start with.

A+

Paul