Re: [Openocd-development] foreign flash drivers

[Ø. H. <oyv...@zy...>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Uwe Hermann <uw...@he...> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:03:25PM +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>  > >  > The rest of the source is in
>  > >  > the ecosflash folder.
>  > >
>  > >  OK, so that code is written by you and GPL'd, which is fine. Is _all_
>  > >  the rest of the code which is linked in the binaries (ELF files) GPL'd
>  > >  too?
>  >
>  > Right. So I should make those files not GPL, but GPL w/exception
>  > lest eCos would have to be GPL'd too?
>
>  I think this is a misunderstanding. I didn't want to suggest to switch
>  to the eCos license (although that's not a problem either).

The alternative would be to distribute the eCos source code
w/OpenOCD. Yuk!

>
>  What I want to make sure is that the ELF files consist of 100% free
>  software,

eCos is 100% free as in free speech + it's free as in free beer :-)

> i.e. that no binary-only, closed-source stuff is linked into
>  those binaries; that would be a problem.
>
>  If the eCos libs (and other objects/code, if any) you linked into the
>  ELF files are all GPL'd or under the eCos license (which is
>  GPL+exception), then everything is fine.

It is.
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>  Uwe.
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