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
I have been discussing the merge with Peter off line. I think he plans
to submit another PR instead of using the branch. I am not sure yet but
I hope that does not make things more complex.
There will also be a PR against inclubator-nuttx-apps that beings in
some SocketCAN tools. There are specially wrapped for use by NuttX but
have the same dual licensed VW code within the wrapping.
Some references:
- Freshly re-verified SocketCAN code:
https://github.com/PetervdPerk-NXP/incubator-nuttx/tree/SocketCAN
- netlib integration:
https://github.com/PetervdPerk-NXP/nuttx-apps-testing/commit/1708c7ed8dcbbc08a2e64623015cd0a1815da993
- candump port:
https://github.com/PetervdPerk-NXP/nuttx-apps-testing/tree/master/canutils/candump
- There may also be a demo example later based on more dual license code
from: https://github.com/linux-can/can-utils TBD
Greg
