--- gdb/COPYING 2018/04/24 17:53:58 1.1.1.1 +++ gdb/COPYING 2018/04/24 17:56:54 1.1.1.3 @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ GDB GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE + (Clarified 11 Feb 1988) - Copyright (C) 1986 Richard M. Stallman + Copyright (C) 1988 Richard M. Stallman Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies - of this license, but changing it is not allowed. + of this license, but changing it is not allowed. You can also + use this wording to make the terms for other programs. The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is @@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ someone else and passed on, we want its they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation. - Therefore we (Richard Stallman and the Free Software Fundation, + Therefore we (Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, Inc.) make the following terms which say what you must do to be allowed to distribute or change GDB. @@ -39,11 +41,12 @@ allowed to distribute or change GDB. 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of GDB source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice "Copyright -(C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc." (or with the year updated if -that is appropriate); keep intact the notices on all files that refer -to this License Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give -any other recipients of the GDB program a copy of this License -Agreement along with the program. +(C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc." (or with whatever year is +appropriate); keep intact the notices on all files that refer to this +License Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give any +other recipients of the GDB program a copy of this License Agreement +along with the program. You may charge a distribution fee for the +physical act of transferring a copy. 2. You may modify your copy or copies of GDB or any portion of it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of @@ -53,42 +56,52 @@ Paragraph 1 above, provided that you als that you changed the files and the date of any change; and b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, - that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of GDB - or any part thereof, to be freely distributed - and licensed to all third parties on terms identical to those - contained in this License Agreement (except that you may choose - to grant more extensive warranty protection to third parties, - at your option). - - c) if the modified program serves as a debugger, cause it - when started running in the simplest and usual way, to print - an announcement including a valid copyright notice - "Copyright (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc." (or with - the year updated if appropriate), saying that there - is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide - a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under - these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of - this License Agreement. - - 3. You may copy and distribute GDB or any portion of it in -compiled, executable or object code form under the terms of Paragraphs -1 and 2 above provided that you do the following: - - a) cause each such copy to be accompanied by the - corresponding machine-readable source code, which must - be distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, - - b) cause each such copy to be accompanied by a - written offer, with no time limit, to give any third party - free (except for a nominal shipping charge) a machine readable - copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed - under the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, - - c) in the case of a recipient of GDB in compiled, executable - or object code form (without the corresponding source code) you - shall cause copies you distribute to be accompanied by a copy - of the written offer of source code which you received along - with the copy you received. + that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of GDB or any + part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third parties on + terms identical to those contained in this License Agreement + (except that you may choose to grant more extensive warranty + protection to third parties, at your option). + + c) if the modified program serves as a debugger, cause it when + started running in the simplest and usual way, to print an + announcement including a valid copyright notice "Copyright (C) + 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc." (or with the year that is + appropriate), saying that there is no warranty (or else, saying + that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the + program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a + copy of this License Agreement. + + d) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of + transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty + protection in exchange for a fee. + +Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this program (or its +derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring +the other program under the scope of these terms. + + 3. You may copy and distribute GDB (or a portion or derivative of it, +under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of +Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: + + a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable + source code, which must be distributed under the terms of + Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, + + b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three + years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal + shipping charge) a complete machine-readable copy of the + corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of + Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, + + c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the + corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is + allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you + received the program in object code or executable form alone.) + +For an executable file, complete source code means all the source code for +all modules it contains; but, as a special exception, it need not include +source code for modules which are standard libraries that accompany the +operating system on which the executable file runs. 4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer GDB except as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt @@ -98,6 +111,14 @@ automatically terminated. However, part software programs from you with this License Agreement will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. + 5. If you wish to incorporate parts of GDB into other free programs +whose distribution conditions are different, write to the Free +Software Foundation at 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139. We have not +yet worked out a simple rule that can be stated here, but we will +often permit this. We will be guided by the two goals of preserving +the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of +promoting the sharing and reuse of software. + In other words, go ahead and share GDB, but don't try to stop anyone else from sharing it farther. Help stamp out software hoarding!