As most of you know, there is a branch called SocketCAN in the
incubator_nuttx repository. This branch holds a port of port of VW's
socket CAN plus NXP copyrighted files. All are BSD licensed (the VW
code is dual licensed) and compatible with the Apache 2.0 license.
The code is stuck on this branch branch because we have set a rule that
all new code must conform to the Apache 2.0 license. But there can be
exceptions to that rule. We can bring third party code into the
repository too as long as it has such a compatible license. Given that
we have been trying unsuccessfully to get an SGA from NXP, perhaps we
should consider this route. We will have to do a few things:
1. We need some advice from one of our mentors (Justin?) on exactly
what we need to do be bring this third party code into the
repository. I presume that everything is summarized here:
https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html (but I am not very good
at reading bureaucratic documents so nothing spoke clearly to me).
2. We need to rebase the SocketCAN branch master, and
3. Re-verify functionality of the SocketCAN branch (Peter would have to
do this), and finally,
4. Merge the SocketCAN branch onto master. I don't think any further
review or checks are required (but ARE certainly welcom). All of
the PRs used to create the SocketCAN branch were previously reviewed
and the merge is very low risk since it should, in principle, effect
only the SocketCAN network sockets and a few CAN drivers.
What say you all? Can we proceed on this and get this out of the way?
If not, what exactly are we waiting for?
