Editing GNU Debugger (section)

==History==
GDB was first written by [[Richard Stallman]] in 1986 as part of his [[GNU]] system, after his [[GNU Emacs]] was "reasonably stable".<ref name="stallman-quote-1986">{{cite web|title=Richard Stallman lecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (1986-10-30)|url=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html|access-date=2006-09-21|quote=Then after GNU Emacs was reasonably stable, which took all in all about a year and a half, I started getting back to other parts of the system. I developed a debugger which I called GDB which is a symbolic debugger for C code, which recently entered distribution. Now this debugger is to a large extent in the spirit of DBX, which is a debugger that comes with Berkeley Unix.}}</ref> GDB is [[free software]] released under the [[GNU General Public License]] (GPL). It was modeled after the [[dbx (debugger)|DBX]] debugger, which came with [[BSD|Berkeley Unix]] distributions.<ref name="stallman-quote-1986" />

From 1990 to 1993 it was maintained by [[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Gilmore (activist)|url=https://hyperleap.com/topic/John_Gilmore_(activist)|website=hyperleap.com|access-date=2020-10-13|archive-date=2021-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226173853/https://hyperleap.com/topic/John_Gilmore_(activist)|url-status=dead}}</ref> Now it is maintained by the GDB Steering Committee which is appointed by the [[Free Software Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=GDB Steering Committee|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/committee/|access-date=2008-05-11}}</ref>