Re: [avr-libc-dev] AVR Elf Processing

[Bob Cook]

I've looked at the implementation of the GCC version of libsupc++ and 
its pretty trivial to duplicate most functionality - the only problem 
for me came into understanding how this licensing stuff works: if I've 
looked at and used the GPL source code for reference, would my 
derivative work also be covered by the GPL? The reason to ask is that I 
have yet to find documentation (except for the source code itself) that 
precisely defines how this library should be implemented. Without such 
documentation, it might take a very long time and lots of test cases to 
know the new implementation is correct.

On 21-Jun-04, at 8:54 AM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As E. Weddington wrote:
>
> > FYI, it's "libsupc++".
> >
> > And here's a reference that talks more about what it is:
> > <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#2_5>
>
> Thanks for the reference.
>
> Yes, that looks like what we're going to need.  However, see previous
> mails, we can probably only use it if it's not [L]GPL'ed, otherwise we
> need to rewrite them (which I guess isn't too hard either).  People
> probably don't want to offer their relocatable object files to their
> customers when shipping an application -- after all, that would render
> the device's lock bits quite useless. ;-)