Griffis, Brad wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone from Montavista or anyone else with experience using Montavista
tools can help answer my question.
A customer recently discovered "the hard way" that once your one year support
contract with Montavista expires that
your compiler ceases to function. The customer's product is more or less
complete, but it could be in production for
a lengthy amount of time (10 years). During that time it's likely that a few
bug reports will come in and they will
need to rebuild some things. Normally a customer would expect to fix the bug
and make a firmware update, but that's
not possible since their compiler is crippled! So what is recommended in this
situation?
In general I think Montavista provides a great service to customers and to the
community. I highly recommend
Montavista to customers, particularly those customers who are not Linux gurus.
This compiler issue is a bit sticky
though and I hope there is some kind of clean solution where both Montavista
and our customers can be happy.
just to be clear, we are speaking about the GCC based (GPL licensed) toolchain,
right? Or a compiler that is not GPL
based and MV wrote themselves?
customer can always ask MV for the source code, if there is a timebomb inside,
it is a matter of minutes to remove.
If the MV IDE stops working, so be it, but the GPL toolchain of course must
not...
Regards,
Vladimir
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