Re: [Openocd-development] License

[Øyvind H. <oyv...@zy...>]

2009/6/24 Magnus Lundin <lu...@ml...>:
> Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Magnus Lundin<lu...@ml...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ųyvind Harboe wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you explain a bit about your thoughts on closed source
>>>> target and interface drivers together with OpenOCD?
>>>>
>>>> I can imagine that a lot of CPU vendors would love the ability
>>>> to provide a closed source plugin that talks to their CPU.
>>>>
>>>> Similarly I believe that there are hardware debuggers that
>>>> would like to have their product specific code closed source.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> This  is  always  a  tradeoff/balance  thing.
>>>
>>> The protocol to talk to MPSSE is well known/open (they do praise
>>> developers
>>> of open alternatives on thier web site) ,
>>> their driver and dll are distributed without restrictions but not with
>>> source code. So it is not GPL but at the same time it does not put any
>>> restrictions  on my code in OpenOCD.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not overly concerned about the USB issue. There are technical
>> solutions proposed and it will be resolved before long I believe. License
>> change is a red herring w.r.t. that technical problem as far as I can
>> understand.
>>
>
> ??  So you are saying that there soon will be open USB solutions for FT2232
> without performance loss and with reasonable work practice on windows hosts
> ??
> Created by whom ?
> Zylin AS?

:-) There *are* other contributors on this list you know. Look at all
the technical
posts the last couple of days on this very issue. Look at all the
technical problems
we have overcome.  There are lots of contributors who want to see this fixed.
This will be resolved *long*  before any license change could be effectuated.

>>
>> zy1000 runs eCos which is GPL compatible. Jim Tcl was a problem, but
>> I fixed that license. zy1000 runs openocd unmodified.
>>
>
> Good enough.
>
> Is FTDI in any way competing with you ?
>
>
> /Magnus
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