From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32507 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2008 13:26:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 32488 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2008 13:26:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from 204-133-123-27.dia.static.slbbi.com (HELO mail.chez-thomas.org) (204.133.123.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:26:36 +0000 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 4ACB63379235; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:26:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8C8337907A; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:26:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <47FA2108.3090805@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:28:00 -0000 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Gaisler 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> In-Reply-To: <200804071308.m37D8Asg014776@mail168c2.megamailservers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00106.txt.bz2 Jiri Gaisler wrote: > Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > >> Anyway, nobody is trying to force you to contribute here. I am just >> trying to show you some of the benefits contributions can make to your >> users, the community as well as yourself. Your changes and >> improvements are yours to do with as you see fit, subject to licensing >> of course ;-) > > I don't see the benefit to our users if there are two different versions > of our contribution, one in the anoncvs and one in the Pro. In such > case, I prefer to have our own fork where we have control over what > goes into our code modules and where we are able to support it. > > 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... > and bug reporting is done on the same set of code. I believe this was also > the case for eCos as long as Cygnus maintained the code. Going back to > this model could in fact benefit eCos Pro, since it would create a much > larger user base for the Pro code, potentially finding more bugs and > provide > more improvements. Just my 2 cents anyhow ... > > Jiri. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss