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Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] New RDA mailing list
At Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:19:21 +0000 (UTC), "Daniel Jacobowitz" wrote:
> There is no benefit to the community in having a publicly developed RDA
> that I can see.
I got all excited about RDA when i saw the announcement, because i was
hoping that it wasn't GPL'd. As it is, it's GPL'd but Copyright Red
Hat. *sigh*
It seems to me that this means that it pretty much equivalent to
gdbserver (modulo implementation or feature differences) **EXCEPT**:
* RH can use it however they wish w/o distributing source, and
* RH can sell licenses to third parties, to allow them to use
it under whatever terms they're willing to pay for.
I think a non-GPL'd (i.e., "actually-free software" 8-)
gdbserver/RDA-like thing would be of great benefit to the community.
However, like you said, i think that the existing RDA is of benefit
only to RedHat. Potential users who want to develop it or develop
using it should be aware of that.
cgd
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