Hey Ivan, Nice to see you back :)
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:19:23PM +0000, De Cesaris, Ivan wrote: > Maybe this is not obvious to everyone but the code, being GPL, > precludes some usages. I'm not a lawyer but I can't release > internal developed code for new silicon to any external customer > (i.e. not in my company), because an NDAs can't "override" GPL > licensing. Something like a BSD license would work great in this > kind of scenario, otherwise whatever external customer needs to wait > for the debugging capabilities to be publicly disclosed before we > can ship any OpenOCD. My personal impression is that a non-copyleft license would do OpenOCD more harm than good. In my view, if one can't release some _source code_ (not documentation, not some other copyrighted work) due to an NDA, to hell with that code and with that hardware. And I'm afraid we just _have to_ use copyleft to force some nasty vendors to share... However, if the OpenOCD project maintainers decide it's worth trying to convince all contributors to relicense their code under BSD-like terms, I'll likely comply where it comes to my own humble additions, no problem with that. > i know this has additional implications and not sure if a > change/extension of the license is really a possibility for OpenOCD > as it is, but it's worth considering. Another thing I wanted to ask you about is to bring the code you guys contributed in line with everything else. It's our mistake that we didn't notice your patches were all GPLv2 whereas all the other parts are GPLv2+. Can you please consider changing that? > PS we will start shortly testing 0.9.0-rc1 on our side, specifically > on Quark, will send the results by the end of this week Great, thank you in advance! It would be also very cool (post-0.9.0 I believe) to cut down on clang warnings related to Quark, please see [1] and [2]. [1] http://build.openocd.org/job/openocd-clang/doclinks/1/ [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.debugging.openocd.devel/26479 -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
