Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2016-02-22 Thread Jan Klemkow
I don't know if it is production ready, but a former the former OpenBSD developer mickey@ has written an own static linker, which he uses for his OpenBSD fork AErieBSD. The AErieBSD-Project is dead, but his linker is at github: https://github.com/McIkye/tools bye, Jan On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-11-23 Thread Carlos Torres
Hello, On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm working on a new stali distro (current state will be published > during the next days) and am looking for a ELF capable linker that > doesn't suffers from GPL/copyleft licensing issues. > > Background: I need to solv

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-12 Thread Nick
Quoth Anselm R Garbe: > > The concern I have is not about compiling, but about _statically_ > > linking and distributing binaries that contain mixed license .o's. > > I checked with the FSF on this topic and they confirmed that it is > fine to distribute statically linked _binaries_ under the term

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-11 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 10 August 2015 at 08:06, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 9 August 2015 at 21:31, wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:50:30AM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >>> I need to investigate further. But probably I will rather go with a >>> static gold linked against glibc to produce smaller binaries and to

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-09 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 9 August 2015 at 21:31, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:50:30AM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> I need to investigate further. But probably I will rather go with a >> static gold linked against glibc to produce smaller binaries and to be >> GPL compliant > > I do not understand what th

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-09 Thread noname
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:50:30AM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > I need to investigate further. But probably I will rather go with a > static gold linked against glibc to produce smaller binaries and to be > GPL compliant I do not understand what the problem is. It is ok to compile GPL progr

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-05 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 4 August 2015 at 22:58, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > 2015-08-04 22:42 GMT+02:00 Anselm R Garbe : >> I'm working on a new stali distro (current state will be published >> during the next days) and am looking for a ELF capable linker that >> doesn't suffers from GPL/copyleft licensing issues. >> >> B

Re: [dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-04 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
2015-08-04 22:42 GMT+02:00 Anselm R Garbe : > Hi there, > > I'm working on a new stali distro (current state will be published > during the next days) and am looking for a ELF capable linker that > doesn't suffers from GPL/copyleft licensing issues. > > Background: I need to solve the problem of no

[dev] MIT/BSD licensed ELF linker?

2015-08-04 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi there, I'm working on a new stali distro (current state will be published during the next days) and am looking for a ELF capable linker that doesn't suffers from GPL/copyleft licensing issues. Background: I need to solve the problem of not offering pre-linked binaries that combine GPLed portio