Pedro Alves wrote: > 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
These are great links, thanks. > > 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. OK, seems we could use it in wcelibsex. > > 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 Yes, celibs looks very promising. > 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 By the way, currently we use wcelibex for a port of Qt to wince so we are in the same position as you, or worse because we only support the ms tools: is it :) or :( ? Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
