Re: Porting the P&E Multilink Universal adapter

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On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 13:06 +0200, Michael Schwingen wrote:
> On 06.10.21 12:15, cw...@th... wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm currently trying to port P&E Multilink Universal[1,2]. This is
> > currently supported by pyocd-pemicro[3] using external dll[4].
> 
> What license applies to these DLLs?
> https://github.com/NXPmicro/pypemicro specifies "bsd 3-clause", does
> that include the binary-only DLLs? I the Source for those DLLs
> available?
> 
> Since OpenOCD ist gpl-v2-or-later, loading non-GPL-compatible DLLs is
> problematic - I think we had this discussion earlier (with the FTDI
> libraries?).
> 

If the licensing is a problem in the long term would I be able to
release a separate package with the drivers in to get around the bsd
licensing issue.

My question still stands on how I would go about getting the hal to be
compiled on my system.

Thanks,
Chris