Hi Pavel, small oftopic regarding the license header:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.en.html "Apache 2.0, has patent clauses which are incompatible with GPL version 2; since I think those patent clauses are good, I made GPL version 3 compatible with them." Best regards Alin On Thu, 14 Sept 2023, 16:06 Pavel Pisa, <ppisa4li...@pikron.com> wrote: > Hello Alin, Brennan and Andrew, > > On Tuesday 12 of September 2023 19:39:31 Alin Jerpelea wrote: > > from my knowledge the GPL code is disabled by default and users MUST > > manually enable it > > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 6:26 PM Brennan Ashton < > bash...@brennanashton.com> > > > > wrote: > > > I'm very confused as to the issue here. This is not GPL code, this is > > > code that is dual licensed. I think two totally different topics are > > > being conflated here. > > Excuse of jumping late into discussion. I have not noticed this thread > and I am not sure about t outcome. I tried to be clean in the offlist > discussion but I am not sure still for some nithes details from NuttX > side. > > Our code is GPL licensed now but all copyright holders agree > on providing it under license fully compatible with NuttX and RTEMS > mainlines. > > I have offered and discussed the license > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 > > with keeping of the list of the authors and reference to the Czech > Technical > University at start of files. > > If the whole list of the licenses is kept, then it allows mutual > enhancements > between driver code forks for individual systems. As I describe elsewhere, > I understand and agree that driver should be readable and with minimum > adaptation/compatibility layers for each kernel even that it means > additional > effort on our side. > > The question to the NuttX stewards is wheather > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 > > line/license s acceptable for manline. > If not, then we leave Apache-2.0 alone and try to track permission of other > outside (non-CTU) contributors to reuse their possible code enhancements > under other two licenses. > > Best wishes, > > Pavel > > -- > Pavel Pisa > > phone: +420 603531357 > e-mail: p...@cmp.felk.cvut.cz > Department of Control Engineering FEE CVUT > Karlovo namesti 13, 121 35, Prague 2 > university: http://control.fel.cvut.cz/ > personal: http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa > company: https://pikron.com/ PiKRON s.r.o. > Kankovskeho 1235, 182 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic > projects: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/ppisa > social: https://social.kernel.org/ppisa > CAN related:http://canbus.pages.fel.cvut.cz/ > RISC-V education: https://comparch.edu.cvut.cz/ > Open Technologies Research Education and Exchange Services > https://gitlab.fel.cvut.cz/otrees/org/-/wikis/home >
