From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17402 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2004 01:34:15 -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 17384 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2004 01:34:13 -0000 Message-ID: <405A4E13.6010500@eCosCentric.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:34:00 -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: Andrew Lunn Cc: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: RE : [ECOS] Licence consideratios. References: <20040316145729.GB31390@lunn.ch> <000301c40b6b$b0d064b0$7407a8c0@figuier> <20040316153617.GC31390@lunn.ch> <4059BB7E.9020100@eCosCentric.com> In-Reply-To: <4059BB7E.9020100@eCosCentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 Jonathan Larmour wrote: > This is the license in question. http://www.rtems.com/license/LICENSE > > IANAL of course, but I believe it is incompatible: Just saying "Incompatible" was imprecise. I meant incompatible with contributing back. It's usable but only under the full GPL. >"[...] linking other > files with RTEMS objects to produce an executable application, does not > by itself cause the resulting executable application to be covered > by the GNU General Public License." > > This will be linked with non-RTEMS objects. Therefore the full GPL would > apply, therefore it is not acceptable, sorry. We can put it up in our > contributions section, but not include it in the main source base. No comments so I'll reply on ecos-discuss. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts >>>>> Visit us in booth 2527 at the Embedded Systems Conference 2004 <<<<< March 30 - April 1, San Francisco http://www.esconline.com/electronicaUSA/ --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine