On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:43 +0200, Robert Scheck wrote:
Hello Nicholas,
On Fr, 26 Mai 2006, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> A crazy license, no documentation, no web site, no mailing list, no CVS,
> no real presence besides a RPM, a bugzilla component, and the occasional
> mention on the SystemTap list.
did you ever have a look to elfutils-0.120/{AUTHORS,THANKS}? Red Hat is
upstream for elfutils and developed by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
Both are also glibc developers or even maintainers (see /lib/libc.so.6).
Yes, I am aware of this. Does this mean I email them personally with all
elfutils questions/discussions/patches? Shouldn't that be done on a
public list?
> Why is this being used instead of the other (more sensibly
licensed? I
> can't tell, I have no idea what the elfutils license means.) libelfs and
> libdwarfs that are available?
Huh? Do you have other elfutils than me? GPL and OSL as far as I got from
the elfutils spec file in Fedora Core and rest seems to be explained after
reading the comments of elfutils-0.120/libdw/dwarf_attr.c for example.
elfutils is licensed under the GPL for all the tools (which I'm
perfectly OK with), and the GPL and/or something unintelligible for the
libraries. AFAICT, the "something unitelligible" says that it can also
be used by any OSI sufficienty viral OSI license, but I haven't paid a
lawyer to explain it to me.
The choice of GPL and/or viral OSI license for a library that
reimplements a common API used by most (all?) ELF Unixen is strange,
considering that better APIs could probably be developed if portable
application compatibility is not a goal of the project, and that seems
to be the case based on the licensing choice and comments by Mr.
Drepper.
> And where does one go to get bugs fixed, because I don't
think bugzilla
> is it. (Although, I think this may be a bugzilla privileges issue.)
Whenever Red Hat is upstream, Bugzilla is the used bugtracking tool. Sorry,
that I'm not really able to get your problem...
This is being discussed elsewhere in this thread, so I'm not going to
repeat myself here.
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Nicholas Miell <nmiell(a)comcast.net>