Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
Griffis, Brad wrote:
Thank you for your reply. Good question. Yes, it's a gcc compiler so it
definitely would/should be possible to
remove the licensing. It uses FLEXnet licensing so it's probably tougher than
some simple time-bomb somewhere.
My hope was to avoid cat and mouse games with Montavista. For example, there is a
"demo version" of the compiler
(without the FLEXnet licensing) that all customers can get for free. I wasn't
sure if any improvements were in the
real compiler though. Other thoughts I had were potentially dropping use of
the Montavista toolchain altogether and
using CodeSourcery instead. Would that create other problems?
there is no cat and mouse game to be played, MV has to release source under the
GPL and I doubt they would like
to have the flexlm part there visible for all to see, so they better release
one without...
This is GPL violation, so simple!
As it turns out, there are some hooks in MV gcc to call an external app, and
that external app them calls into
flexlm code, replacing that external app with one that just returns (0) will
fix this issue and effectively
remove the licensing manager.
So, I take it back, it is not a GPL violation (I guess MV will happily provide the
"hook" code), but it seems
to be at least an effective scare tactics. I wonder how many customers in the
same situation just pay up...
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