I'm sorry about using the wrong address, that was my mistake. Justin, thanks for the quick response about the BSD-licensed code. That sounds workable. When I get close to implementation I'll send an email here (to the right list!) to give an update on how it would work.
cheers adam On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 7:22 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just noticed that this conversation was occurring on > nu...@googlegroups.com. Not sure how we got there. Moving back to > dev@nuttx.apache.org where I thought we were all along. > >> There is one big difference. I have spoken (via email) with all of the > authors and copyright holders and each has given their support and > encouragement to bring the code into NuttX. > > Is being developing a branch of Nutt is one obvious one. Sure if you > want go and merge it but at some point before graduation it will need to be > sorted. > > Yes, this is a custom port that was developed specifically for use in > NuttX. The primary authors of the port are Peter Van Der Perk (NXP) and > myself and is based on a common SocketCAN core stack by Oliver Hartkopp > (VW): "... that's a cool idea and I definitely support your idea to > support SocketCAN for NuttX!" I have worked through this with all > players include Peter's supervisor. > > Corporate legal is the bottleneck. I doubt that corporate legal sees > any benefit to the corporation by conforming to ASF expectations. I > think they believe that the BSD license is sufficient. > > I will start looking into what is needed to re-verify the branch and > merge it into master next week after we branch off for the 9.1 release. > > It will be so good to have this resolved. Thanks for your help. > > Greg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NuttX" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nuttx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nuttx/e997fdca-9bec-f93b-70a4-3ea9804e4b45%40gmail.com > . > -- Adam Feuer <a...@starcat.io>
