From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9172 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2008 13:40:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 9160 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2008 13:40:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail168c2.megamailservers.com (HELO mail168c2.megamailservers.com) (69.49.111.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:39:39 +0000 X-Authenticated-User: jiri.gaisler.com Received: from [192.168.0.23] (c-d2c9e253.93-16-64736c12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [83.226.201.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail168c2.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m37DdTZL023776; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:39:33 -0400 Message-Id: <200804071339.m37DdTZL023776@mail168c2.megamailservers.com> Message-ID: <47FA2438.4090904@gaisler.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:44:00 -0000 From: Jiri Gaisler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Thomas CC: Alex Schuilenburg , ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org References: <20080403112347.68e481c9@kingfisher.sec.intern.logix-tt.com> <200804030937.m339bj00013603@mail168c2.megamailservers.com> <200804032050.20913.neundorf@kde.org> <200804032228.m33MSkCg027848@mail168c2.megamailservers.com> <20080404104457.35553e0a@kingfisher.sec.intern.logix-tt.com> <200804040912.m349CrYq028389@mail176c2.megamailservers.com> <20080404114231.7efcf59a@kingfisher.sec.intern.logix-tt.com> <47F5FC4A.2080401@gaisler.com> <20080404145330.GM7929@lunn.ch> <200804041510.m34FAdfE025938@mail175c2.megamailservers.com> <47F64F89.9080809@ecoscentric.com> <200804041650.m34Goakc019397@mail175c2.megamailservers.com> <47F9FDE9.5000707@ecoscentric.com> <200804071308.m37D8Asg014776@mail168c2.megamailservers.com> <47FA2108.3090805@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <47FA2108.3090805@mlbassoc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] Are copyright assignments detrimental to eCos? X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 Gary Thomas wrote: >> The development model for kernels like RTEMS and linux seems more >> reliable to me. There is only one code base and all testing, validation > > At least as far as Linux goes - this is malarkey. There are more versions > of Linux out there than you could count, mostly for those platforms or > environments where the code either is not acceptable into the public > tree or simply kept back for commercial advantage. For example, you don't > see the code for the LinkSys routers in the public tree... All serious maintainers use the code from kernel.org. Sure, there are derivates that goes into various products, but the major development, testing, validation and bug reporting is done on the kernel.org sources. Same thing with RTEMS, where the (public) CVS from rtems.org is used. Jiri. -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss