From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29457 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2003 12:19:09 -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 29450 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2003 12:19:08 -0000 Message-ID: <3F8400B9.9030409@eCosCentric.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:19:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Schuilenburg Cc: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Does this license look familiar? References: <3F83D2D7.7060006@ecoscentric.com> In-Reply-To: <3F83D2D7.7060006@ecoscentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > http://www.rtems.com/license/LICENSE > > The wording has been changed slightly in places so they talk in more > general terms and they talk about executables rather than "works" (which > IMHO implies that RTEMS libraries are not covered i.e. they are GPL'ed), > but I still would consider this to be a derivative of the eCos license > version 2. > > Well, they could hardly distribute RTEMS under the eCos License could > they? ;-) Sorry to disappoint :), but this type of exception text was taken from GCC, not us, e.g.: http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/libstdc%2b%2b-v3/libsupc%2b%2b/del_op.cc?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup They've modified it in a similar way to us, that's all. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine