Re: [Openocd-development] License

[David B. <da...@pa...>]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Rick Altherr wrote:
> Technically, nothing is required from the project-side.  The  
> infringement happens solely at the time of distribution, not at the  
> time of authoring or compilation.  Since OpenOCD is only released as  
> source code, the project is not directly affected by any  
> infringement.

I actually saw an "msi" file on the Berlios download page.
Which I believe is one flavor of MS-Windows installer.


> Doing nothing still leaves packagers and distributors   
> open to the possibility of committing infringement rather easily, but  
> that is still a choice made by them, not us.  D2xx is by default  
> disabled.  _If_ we choose to do anything for 0.2.0, it could be as  
> simple as adding a warning that by having D2xx enabled, the resulting  
> binaries cannot be distributed.

That sounds like it's worth doing ... one could do more
later too.