IMO we should at least have some numbers about the current status first, i.e, how many files can be cleared directly, how many can not, etc.
With the numbers in hand, then we can decide whether it is possible for us to finish the work, and how to finish the work. Even if we want to reach out for help from a 3rd party, we still need these numbers so we can decide how much money we should pay... What I can see on the wiki page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/License+Clearing is just a rough plan, there are no numbers about the current status yet. Thanks. Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> 于2020年7月27日周一 上午10:43写道： > We have talked a little about IP clearance on the NuttX podling project > but I am not sure if anyone really appreciates the magnitude of this > effort: There is 13 years of commits, possibly 50,000 total commits, > many hundreds of contributors, 1000's of files, 1.5 million lines of > code, and transitions through 3 different configuration management > systems. There is no contact information for the majority of the > contributors and there is no reason to believe that all contributors > will be cooperative. > > I think that anyone who believes that this can be done properly with the > part time, now-and-then effort of a couple of people is sorely > mistaken. I think it will require a fully dedicated, team with some > specialized expertise and a substantial amount of time to do. > > The only way that I can conceive of this happening is if we were to > contract a 3rd party software CM/QA/IV&V house to to do the job. That > would, of course require a serious investment of money. I am wondering > if we could motivate some corporate sponsors to fund such an effort. I > appreciate that that is a long shot but we should consider it. In the > past, Xiaomi, for example, as committed to supporting the licensing/IP > clearance effort. But I don't think that anyone really appreciated the > effort required at that time. > > We do have to make this happen and I don't blame anyone on the PPMC for > not wanting to take this on. It would cost you the next year of your > life .. full time. I wouldn't make that commitment and I would not > expect any other individual to do so either. > > We some need a plan. With no plan, the project will not graduate. Even > with a plan in hand, I would not expect graduation to be possible within > the next year or more. > > Greg > > >
