Re: [ECOS] Are copyright assignments detrimental to eCos?

[Jiri Gaisler <jiri@gaisler.com>]

Alex Schuilenburg wrote:

> Anyway, forking is not in our interest, never mind the community's. We 
> want the benefits that contributions to eCos bring, as does everyone 
> else. eCosPro is not a fork, it is a superset of eCos.  See  
> http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ecospro.shtml
> 
> What you seem to be suggesting is that you want everyone else *but* 
> eCosCentric to benefit from your potential contribution.

What I am saying is that I want everyone to benefit from our contribution,
*and* from potential derivate work in form of bug fixes. Just like the
linux kernel. Everyone sees the same kernel code, while applications and
drivers can be proprietary if desired. It seems to me that insisting on
FSF copyright transfer blocks this in some way. We are still maintaining
our own ecos fork (superset), but I would rather see everything merged
to anoncvs. But I respect the policy of the anoncvs maintainers and
eCoscentric, so we will keep it as is for them time being.


Jiri.

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