Re: hsdis (OpenJDK) GPL question regarding binutils

["Chris Newland" <cnewland at chrisnewland dot com>]

Update:

Feedback on another list indicates this is a GPLv2 (hsdis) / GPLv3
(binutils) incompatibility.

A request has been made to Oracle/OpenJDK to re-license the 2 files which
form the very simple shim between HotSpot and binutils to be GPLv2 or
later.

If that is not successful then I will look at replicating their
functionality with clean sources that are GPLv3.

Thanks,

Chris
@chriswhocodes

On Wed, May 27, 2015 18:04, Chris Newland wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm the author of JITWatch[1], a BSD-licensed open-source project for
> inspecting the Java HotSpot VM's JIT compiler output.
>
> JITWatch can use the hsdis (HotSpot Disassembler) tool from the OpenJDK
> project (GPLv2 + classpath exception -
> http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html) which is built by linking
> against binutils.
>
> I'd like to be able to host hsdis binaries for JITWatch users but found
> these build instructions that suggest a license issue with doing so:
> http://dropzone.nfshost.com/hsdis.htm
>
>
> I then found this post suggesting GPLv3 binutils is available:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-August/msg00264.ht
> ml
>
> Could any licensing experts shed some light on whether there is a
> compliant way to distribute hsdis binaries that statically link binutils?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Chris
> @chriswhocodes
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch
>
>
>