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Call for help Core Dump

I have described my issue in the talk about it Talk:Core_dump. Basically, I am dealing with people who are repeatedly deleting the content of this node. Need more free and open source people to come and help me out!!!

User:Mdupont 21:40 30 Oct. 2006 (CET)

GPL, so what?

"[BFD's] licensing under the GPL [...] has tended to limit its use; [...]"

Please explain why. I understand the differences between licensing a library under GPL vs. LGPL, with an LGPL-licensed library having the advantage to link it against proprietary code legally. But I don't see a problem with licensing BFD with GPL, as it seems to me that BFD is a inhouse development-only related library that does not need to be incorporated into a publicized software product. Thanks, --Abdull (talk) 08:39, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The statement should probably be whacked. Although are probably non-free or BSD-licensed programs that are having to provide their own object file manipulation when they would rather be using BFD, I can't think of any actual examples. BFD *could* be maintained as a generic system library a la curses and such, but the API would be very complicated and need continual revision to keep up with the arcana of different systems. There is a bit of chicken-and-egg going on, since potential clients are discouraged by the messy API, but API cleanup would take time away from meeting the needs of the current clients. Stan (talk) 13:46, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good. Whacking the statement (after adding references to the changing ABI discouraging its use) —Hobart (talk) 19:33, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Without the BFD library, nearly all development in the Linux world comes to a screeching sudden halt; even so, it may not be notable. :-) Ironically, despite its linchpin status, it's not described in books much - Tiemann in Open Sources retells the naming story and mentions BFD's importance to GNU's spread, but there's not much else in print. Everybody just uses it without realizing its significance I guess. Stan (talk) 20:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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