On 06/10/15 08:51, Richard Rauch wrote: > You do not see a lot of activities in the eCos community because of politics > and commercial interests. [snip] > This is just a guess, but in my opinion the reason for this is, that the > maintainers of public eCos are as well strongly commercial oriented. > It seems, they will not put any port to official open source repository if > it could disturb commercial interests (eCosCentric/eCosPro...).
If nothing else, look at the list at the bottom of http://ecos.sourceware.org/intouch.html and you'll see that only two of the maintainers (myself and Nick) are in eCosCentric - severely outnumbered! If a maintainer has the time and ability to go through, review and potentially rework any submission, then any of them can. If you think there has been some secret agreement behind-the-scenes between all maintainers to deliberately stop contributions being committed you are very mistaken. > Additionally I need to say, that you will be thwarted, if you try to offer > commercial activities as well. If you are not absolutely carefully about > usage of eCos name and logo, you will get some letters from eCosCentric's > lawyer! I'm not speaking for eCosCentric here, and I definitely don't know all the details (not my dept.!), but I do know that if any trademark holder knowingly fails to enforce an abuse of a trademark (such as incorporating that trademark into your own mark which you then assert as a trademark), then that trademark is being diluted and as a result can become legally unenforceable (you can't enforce against one abuse, if you deliberately turned a blind eye to another). And obviously no-one would want to lose all protection of the eCos trademark entirely. That's my take on it anyway. Jifl -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
