Hi Julian,
On 31 Mar 2017, at 1:54, Julian Ingram wrote:
Hi Marko,
The Microchip license:
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This is BSD, this is perfectly OK.
The only other thing is the Microchip SDK is quite large (several GB),
this being the case it might be worth making it a separate package. We
would likely be dooming our users to having 2 copies of the SDK on
their drives as the SDK is installed with the compiler when you
download it so it might be worth picking out just the bits we need.
+1. I think we should take what’s relevant to implement our HAL and
include it in repo, and then ideally distribute the rest of the SDK as
an external package. If imgtech has a GitHub account they could host
on, that would be ideal - otherwise we could also host as Runtime.
Best,
Sterling
