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Re: BFD: GPL or LGPL
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: "Harshad R Joglekar" <harshad dot joglekar at wipro dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:16:57 +0000
- Subject: Re: BFD: GPL or LGPL
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-to: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
> Hi,
> I was wondering about the license for BFD. Is it GPL or LGPL? That is, can I
> write (and distribute) a proprietary program that uses libbfd?
>
> (source files have a GPL header, but README doesnot mention any.)
>
> Thanks,
> Harshad
>
> PS. Pls CC to me, as I am currently not on the list.
The BFD is GPL -- see the file bfd/COPYING for details. It may only be
linked to programmes to which the source code is released under a
GPL-compatible terms.
R.