From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 889 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2003 15:21:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 865 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2003 15:21:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3E5CDB64.9070000@eCosCentric.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:21:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Thomas Cc: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Another copyright issue References: <1046272511.31018.6102.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> In-Reply-To: <1046272511.31018.6102.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 Gary Thomas wrote: > As part of one of the ports I've recently done, I had to > add a couple of files which require special consideration. > They are binary data, and only applicable to a particular > device (nonetheless required to build RedBoot on the device > since it needs them to initialize the hardware). I'd noticed this, although I hadn't (yet) got round to a detailed going through of the patch... > The producer of the files (the hardware manufacturer) has > allowed their use, but they want their copyright on them. > I have amended this to look like this: > > // > // Copyright (c) 2003 Intrinsyc Europe Ltd. All rights reserved. > // > // Redistribution and use in source or binary format is allowed > // provided: > // * This notice must be preserved > // * The binary data which this file represents may only be > // used on a NMI uPCI + uE250 based hardware platform. > > which I believe preserves their use in the spirit of open source. > > Does anyone have a problem with this? Nope - it's almost public domain, and the hardware restriction is a no-op for binary data like this IMO! I am assuming they have given permission for this knowing this text. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --[ "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you ]-- --[ can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Lincoln ]-- Opinions==mine