RFR 8208183: update HSDIS plugin license to UPL

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Aug 21 16:41:19 UTC 2018


On 08/21/2018 11:14 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Am I correct in understanding that there are no more legal barriers 
> towards doing such a thing anymore?

You'd still be linking GPLv2-only code (libjvm) against GPLv3-or-later
code (binutils).  IANAL, but I suspect you can't get around the GPLv3
that easily.

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Andrew Haley
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