From: Howard M. <ho...@fi...> - 2005-09-22 20:12:25
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Weston Schmidt wrote: > Hi Beau, > > I would like to commend you on your efforts in unifying the pic landscape (which needs to be > done). > > That said, I have concerns about the licensing of files directly derived from Microchip's device > files. I couldn't find it in the short amount of time I have to search, but it seems that I > recall an earlier effort to not use the device files provided by Microchip because of the > licensing issues related to this (Vangelis & I talked about this I think). > > According to the licensing I found with the IDE (7.21), Microchip explicitly disallows the right > to share the device files or derived files with anyone. Everyone will have to directly download > the device files from Microchip. There is a pdf on the Microchip site legal page: http://microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=487¶m=en023282) I'm guessing they'll just want you to propagate their copywrite etc. You (we?) might also want to suggest packaging the dev and inc files in a special download section to be covered under predefined (more relaxed) conditions. BTW, Does anyone use sdcc without gputils? > > I could be wrong, but I think this means that the header files that get generated would be > copyrighted by Microchip & we would need to get their permission to slap the LGPL or GPL license > on the header files. Microchip has already donated code to gputils.sf.net, they may do the same > for SDCC. > > Hopefully there is someone out there that can speak to this more authoritively. > > Sorry to be the rain cloud. > > Wes Schmidt > > --- "Beau E. Cox" <be...@ha...> wrote: > > > Hozit* Howard - > > > > ======= At 2005-09-21, 10:32:34 you wrote: ======= > > |