Re: DHCP server package

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:24:36PM +0100, sebastien Couret wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have ported the uDHCP DHCP server to eCOS. 
>>
>>I think this can be usefull , because for the momemt there is no DHCP server 
>>package available with eCOS.
>>
>>As told in the FAQ, my contribution got the form of an epk package under GPL.
>>
>>I would like to have feedback, comments , bug reports  and so on , from all 
>>of you that could find it usefull.
>>
>>On the other hand, Can someone of you explain me how can this package 
>>integrate the eCOS CVS ? and what is the process to follow ?
> 
> 
> GPL code cannot be integrated in the eCos CVS. The GPL license for
> uDHCP would mean that all of eCos had to be distributed as GPL. This
> would also mean that all of the application would also have to be
> GPL. We don't want this, since people use eCos for writing commercial
> applications. 

What we can do though is make it available on the contribution download 
page, <http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html>. If this is okay by you 
then mail me or Andrew the EPK off list and we'll put something up on that 
page with your name in lights!

Jifl
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