Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Possible GPL violation

[Stahl, M. <man...@ii...>]

Any progress on this topic? I tried to contact Microsemi myself via le...@mi....

Regards,
Manuel


> No. I still have not received any response. Could any of the copyright holders try to contact Microsemi?
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> From: an...@fr... [mailto:an...@fr...] On Behalf Of Andreas Fritiofson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 4:05 PM
> To: Горелов Валентин Владимирович
> Cc: Paul Fertser; ope...@li...
> Subject: Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Possible GPL violation
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> I guess that should be sufficient. Have you still not received any response?
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> /Andreas
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> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Горелов Валентин Владимирович <gor...@bp...> wrote:
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> I sent a request for the sources more than a week ago but still have no response.
> What else should I have done?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Горелов Валентин Владимирович
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 10:31 AM
> To: 'Paul Fertser'; Andreas Fritiofson
> Cc: ope...@li...
> Subject: RE: [OpenOCD-devel] Possible GPL violation
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> I have sent a request to dav...@mi.... Waiting for their answer.
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> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 12:11:20PM +0000, Andreas Fritiofson wrote:
> > According to the license agreement for the softconsole IDE, Microsemi
> > offers to provide the source code to any of the open source
> > components, thereby complying with the license (at least the first step).
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> I downloaded the installer and it unpacked all the components without showing any EULA (I used text mode).
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> > The request should be made to [1]dav...@mi... and not
> > the support channel, which may explain why they would not provide the code on request.
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> Interesting. Valentin, are you going to try mailing him?
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> If you are, please request the source not only for OpenOCD itself but also for libfpcommwrapper.so, libfpcomm.so and libfputil.so libraries as well, as the OpenOCD license doesn't have any exceptions that allow linking with proprietary code.
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