I'm working with our legal departement on straightening the licensing issues out. Our intention is to distribute the source code under GPL. Most likely, we will remove
* Xilinx products are not intended for use in life support * appliances, devices, or systems. Use in such applications are * expressly prohibited. without replacement. - Peter Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:32:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:12:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > you seem to have added the the directory in the topic to the > > > LinuxPPC trees. Unfortunately they have a license consitency that > > > basically makes them illegal to distribute, they claim to be under > > > GPL but have the following notice: > > > > > > * Xilinx products are not intended for use in life support > > > * appliances, devices, or systems. Use in such applications are > > > * expressly prohibited. > > > > > > Could you please contact Xilinc to clarify the license and/or remove > > > those files from the tree? Thanks. > > > > As there hasn't been any answer yet I think these files should be > > remove to ensure the linuxppc tree is legally distributable. > > I think you should ask someone responsible first. And on the correct > mailing list as well. Armin is not responsible for this code, Scott > Anderson is. Armin just put it into the linuxppc-2.5 tree. Second, > Peter Ryser (who handles the Xilinx side of things) is on the > linuxppc-embedded list, where most of the 4xx people are. Finally, > Peter knows about this, and last I knew was talking to their legal > department. Peter, any news on this? > > -- > Tom Rini > http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
