[Crash-utility] Crash extensions and GPL

[Castor Fu]

Good point... well, I guess we've lived with it this long... ;-)
 

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Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Crash extensions and GPL


Castor Fu wrote: 


	Would it be possible to modify the license for crash so
extensions 
	would not be subject to the GPL?  Our developers create
extensions 
	which use our proprietary source code, and while they are most 
	useful in-house, it'd be nice to be able to ship them to
customers. 
	 

I am not a lawyer, nor am I an open source zealot, but the 
crash utility is subject to the GPL due to the embedded gdb 
module.  Given that any extension would be in all probability 
require a gdb service, how could you work around that? 

Dave 
  


	We're certainly interested in contributing back generically
useful code, 
	but this would be a 'nice to have'. 

	I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure how to modify the license, but
I could 
	ask people here for help if this seems reasonable. 

	    -castor 
	
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