Hi Peter, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Hi, > > recently we've > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wcelibcex/ > > discovered your port of newlib to wince. > We would like to use some functions in wcelibcex but we > are not sure about the license. wcelibcex is MIT, newlib BSD > like, but cegcc is GPL, does this mean the wince port of newlib > is also GPL? Is it possible to release the newlib part of cegcc > under BSD /MIT (when not already done)? > >
Unfortunately, our port of newlib grew up without a written license. It is a derivative of Mamaich's toolchain, http://mamaich.uni.cc/fr_pocket.htm Which is itself a derivative of the original work done by Voxware: http://win-ce.voxware.com:28575/Development%20Tools/gnuwince.html plus some code from celib, on which I believe GNUWINCE was based on: http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html Since the original Voxware doesn't have an explicit written license, I believe it falls back to newlib's license. Last time I was in touch with Craig, it was clear that GNUWINCE was not GPL. I'm CCing Craig, and Rainer and Mamaich. Maybe they are want to comment. By the way, Peter, if you want cegcc's features (like file descriptors abstractions, p.ex.) for Visual studio, you should take a look at celib. But if you just want a few simple wrappers, take a look at mingw32ce, specifically the mingw/mingwex/wince subdir in our svn. Mingw32ce has the same license as MinGW. Cheers, Pedro Alves ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Cegcc-devel mailing list Cegcc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cegcc-devel
