Re: valgrind

2002-02-27 Thread Matthew Emmerton
I'm working on porting this right now. Be forewarned, though, that the FreeBSD hacks for this tool will *never* be allowed into the main distro. Why? Licence. Valgrind includes some code from the Linux kernel and libc. When we hack it for FreeBSD, we'll end up putting some BSD-licenced code

Re: valgrind

2002-02-27 Thread Patrik Sundberg
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: I'm working on porting this right now. great news! what is the current status and have you set up a website for the project or will it be a simple portsentry with some patches? (I thought it would require some more rewriting

Re: valgrind

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Lucas
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: Be forewarned, though, that the FreeBSD hacks for this tool will *never* be allowed into the main distro. Why? Licence. Valgrind includes some code from the Linux kernel and libc. When we hack it for FreeBSD, we'll end up

Re: valgrind

2002-02-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Emmerton wrote: I'm working on porting this right now. Be forewarned, though, that the FreeBSD hacks for this tool will *never* be allowed into the main distro. Why? Licence. Valgrind includes some code from the Linux kernel and libc. When we hack it for FreeBSD, we'll end up

Re: valgrind

2002-02-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Michael Lucas wrote: Actually, this doesn't cause as many as you might think. GPL'd code can swallow BSDL'd code. BSDL'd code cannot swallow GPL'd code. You could probably get your code assimilated into the main valgrind distro. No, it can't. You can't change the license on the original