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0 pointsjonathrg1y ago0 comments

Is GPL really an impediment for someone developing a GDB frontend?

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jcalabro1y ago· 1 in thread

I don't think so since you could do a front end over DAP, right? No linking required therefore. IANAL

It was added well after GDB's design was set. Only when LLVM brought a permissively licensed competitor did the FSF start opening up its toolchain to not be left out in the race to the bottom.

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