Hi, today, I read that one of the Google Summer of Code 2007 projects from FreeBSD involved a reimplementation of GPL-licensed bintools.
Details: Project: BSD bintools project (Part I) Student: Kai Wang Mentor: Joseph Koshy Summary: This project re-implemented part of the GNU binutils based on the libelf and libarchive libraries. It will bring FreeBSD a BSD Licensed toolchain for processing ELF binary files. The project mainly concentrated on re-implementing the tools ar(1), ranlib(1), objcopy(1), strip(1) and composing corresponding manual pages. Ready to enter CVS: soon Source: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2007.html Even if no code is available in CVS yet (according to that Web page), I thought it would be interesting to some. I guess the code could be asked for. Greetings.
