As Rich Teer wrote: > ... In other words, under BSD, someone could take the AVRlibC code > and change it, but not be obliged to return those changes back to > the community.
And this is exactly intentional for our purpose. In the embedded world, people can quickly become nervous if they even feel the slightest pressure of being obligued to make their own changes available as source code. There's a real (and probably much more a fealt) danger that the liability to open up the source code for your device could ruin your business. Let's face it: if it's a general useful change, they'll eventually feed it back anyway because it will ultimately reduce maintenance hassle upon later upgrading avr-libc. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ AVR-libc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-libc-dev
