From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: Fabrice Gautier Cc: 'eCos mailing list' Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 TARGET network programming Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B672417.7DD4E8EA@redhat.com> References: <005501c1192b$c00166d0$090110ac@TRENT> <3B65B36B.AAC4E38D@redhat.com> <20010731014041.E46A.GAUTIER@email.enst.fr> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00971.html Fabrice Gautier wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:20:11 +0100 > Jonathan Larmour wrote: > > > > > there's an NE2000 driver [...] which we > > couldn't incorporate for copyright reasons. > > How come? > > The webpage says that it come from OpenBLT, which according to their > license seems compatible with eCos license. (it looks pretty much like a BSD > license) There is one key problem: it contains the (so-called) "advertising clause" which BSD later removed. This is clause 2 in that licence. This would bind everyone who uses the driver in a product. So while we are happy to distribute it on our web site, we aren't happy to include it in the main source distribution itself. Although I haven't approached Brian Swetland about this to see if he would be willing to waive this clause. Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine