From: Jiri Gaisler <jiri@gaisler.com>
To: neundorf@kde.org
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Are copyright assignments detrimental to eCos?
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804032228.m33MSkCg027848@mail168c2.megamailservers.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <47F55A47.7070602@gaisler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804032050.20913.neundorf@kde.org>
Using LGPL does not require you ship your firmware as
object files and link later. My understanding of LGPL
is that you can ship proprietary core linked with LGPL
code, without having to open-source the proprietary
code. It is only the modifications of the LGPL code
you must publish, which is exactly what we are after.
Jiri.
Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 22:29 UTC|newest]
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
[not found] ` <47F55A47.7070602@gaisler.com>
2008-04-03 22:40 ` Jiri Gaisler [this message]
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] ` <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
[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
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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