From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 433 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2004 14:40:55 -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 390 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2004 14:40:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: sebastien Couret Reply-To: sebastien.couret@elios-informatique.fr Organization: Elios Informatique To: Jonathan Larmour Subject: Re: Contribution of a DHCP server (=?iso-8859-1?q?=B5DHCP?=)port to eCOS Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:40:00 -0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <412D010D.60603@eCosCentric.com> In-Reply-To: <412D010D.60603@eCosCentric.com> Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Aug 2004 14:42:53.0359 (UTC) FILETIME=[F7D79BF0:01C48B7A] X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 Hello Jonathan,(and maintainers) I'm sorry but i'm not a lawyer and licencing issues are a bit tricky. As U say "the eCos license, which is GPL plus a special exception." . if I had well understood this exception is that you can link your own code with an eCOS library and your own code will stay under your property. (With GPL, your code also becomes GPL ...) Is that it ? I have tried to obtain a written agreement of all contributors of µDHCP to cahnge GPL to the eCOS licence but many emails are now broken and one of them had strictly refused. So I think the best thing I could do is to release it under GPL. I was also unaware of the FreeBSD licensing clause, If I had understood you have a solution if U can convinced Mr Niels Provos of changing his terms. Am I right ? Could you send me templates of what u call a "copyrigth assignement" and "copyright disclaimer" ? I'm the only contributor for the changes needed by the port so I will fill them in. Thanks for all your good work.