Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 06:46:07PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > > Indeed, it doesn't use libbfd but just GPLv2'ed. > > > As you said we should move only mdsetimage and dbsym into external/gpl3. > > > > Do we need that for any non-elf targets? > > If not, porting to FreeBSD's libelf might be an option. > > It looks authors chose GPLv2 regardless of ELF support. > (though we might be able to ask to change their license)
mdsetimage started off as BSD licenced, and I convinced the author to allow to be dual licenced (or changed to GPL2 - I don't recall) so that it could use libbfd and then used as a cross-build tool. I then wrote a new dbsym based on mdsetimage. If they were converted to use libelf, mdsetimage is already clear to use a BSD licence and if dbsym isn't BSD licenced I obviously have no problem re-licencing it :-) Cheers, Simon.
