Re: [Openocd-development] License

[Spencer O. <sp...@sp...>]

> 
> Against currently.
> 
> The current technical problems are just a tiny bump in the 
> road compared to the >2000 revisions  we have in SVN.
> 
> We need a robust license(GPL is that) and we need to make 
> sure that all the things we want open stay open. Who's to say 
> what the effects of an exception would be? Where would it 
> start? Where would it stop?
> 
> There are LOTS of closed source hardware debuggers out 
> the(good ones, we use them every day). The whole point of 
> OpenOCD is that it is ... open.
> 

We all want openocd to be open - I just do not see why adding
an exception to ftd2xx is opening any floodgates for other vendors.

Cheers
Spen