From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>
To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Are copyright assignments detrimental to eCos?
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804032050.20913.neundorf@kde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804030937.m339bj00013603@mail168c2.megamailservers.com>
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jiri Gaisler wrote:
> Markus Schaber wrote:
> > Additionally, our company has the policy that any substantial
> > contribution must be copy-lefted, so no-one else can make closed-source
> > derivates.
> >
> > Copyright assignment creates a single point of failure against
> > closed-source derivates, weakening the copyleft.
>
> I completely agree with Markus. We are hesitant to contribute our
> leon2/3 port and drivers because we do not want to have closed-source
> distributions (e.g. eCos Pro) using our code without contributing
> back fixes or improvements. The ideal solution would be to license
So GPL or LGPL would be ok for you ?
> the eCos code in LGPL. This would allow mixing proprietary applications
> with the kernel, while force any improvements or bug fixes to be
> published.
Well, and it would enforce that company ship their firmware as object files or
relinkable static libraries, so that this together with the LGPL part (eCos
then) could be relinked to a working firmware image.
I think that's not a very practical solution.
Alex
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 2:59 Øyvind Harboe
2008-04-02 19:01 ` Jonathan Larmour
2008-04-03 9:38 ` Markus Schaber
[not found] ` <47F4A57F.1080501@gaisler.com>
2008-04-03 11:14 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-03 18:49 ` Alexander Neundorf [this message]
[not found] ` <47F55A47.7070602@gaisler.com>
2008-04-03 22:40 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-04 4:11 ` Alexander Neundorf
2008-04-04 9:02 ` Markus Schaber
[not found] ` <47F5F130.2030800@gaisler.com>
2008-04-04 9:36 ` Jiri Gaisler
[not found] ` <20080404114231.7efcf59a@kingfisher.sec.intern.logix-tt.com>
[not found] ` <47F5FC4A.2080401@gaisler.com>
2008-04-04 10:50 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-04 15:33 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2008-04-04 16:09 ` Markus Schaber
2008-04-04 16:13 ` Markus Schaber
2008-04-04 16:25 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-04-04 16:26 ` Markus Schaber
2008-04-04 14:58 ` Andrew Lunn
[not found] ` <47F6450C.4090302@gaisler.com>
2008-04-04 15:17 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-04 16:06 ` Alex Schuilenburg
[not found] ` <47F65C78.5050005@gaisler.com>
2008-04-04 23:18 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-05 0:44 ` Jonathan Larmour
2008-04-07 12:18 ` Alex Schuilenburg
[not found] ` <47FA1CE4.8090708@gaisler.com>
2008-04-07 13:17 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-07 13:28 ` Gary Thomas
[not found] ` <47FA2438.4090904@gaisler.com>
2008-04-07 13:44 ` Jiri Gaisler
2008-04-07 15:51 ` Gregg Levine
2008-04-04 15:45 ` Andrew Lunn
[not found] ` <47F642D0.7000907@xylanta.com>
2008-04-04 15:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-04-04 15:20 ` Andy Jackson
2008-04-04 16:47 ` Markus Schaber
2008-04-07 8:00 ` Gary Thomas
2008-04-04 10:00 ` Chris Zimman
2008-04-04 15:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-04-04 15:46 ` Chris Zimman
2008-04-03 18:46 ` Bart Veer
2008-04-03 19:01 ` Alexander Neundorf
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