winebuild incompatibility with binutils-2.13.90.0.20

[Mike Hearn]

Sure, but winebuild is a tool - what do we lose if winebuild is GPLd
rather than LGPLd? No proprietary software would need to link against
it, right?

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 00:23, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Mike Hearn" <mike at theoretic.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why do we care about the L part of the LGPL for the tools? For the
> > libraries it's clearly important, but for the setup/build tools?
> 
> Because libbfd is a library. See the quote below.
> 
> > > "Piotr PawЁow" <pp at siedziba.pl> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Shouldn't winebuild, however, use libbfd where available,
> > > > instead of relying on nm output?
> > >
> > > AFAIK libbfd is GPL'ed, i.e. has an incompatible license.
> 
> --
> Dmitry.
> 
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