On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Paul Fertser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Ivan,
>
> Thank you for the response.
>
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 10:14:58AM +0000, De Cesaris, Ivan wrote:
> > There's also normally a period when the parts are not public but
> > under NDA for selected partners and not just internal anymore.
> > These partners will need tools for the new Si and, once again, it's
> > not about the kind of NDA, it's that GPL discloses the IP, ergo I
> > can't have non-public IP and GPL code.
>
> AFAICT, this is not meaningful because there's no such thing as "IP"
> legal-wise. "Imaginary Property" is not a real property, it's
> something invented by dirty lawyers to confuse the others. Please see
> [1] for an elaborate explanation. Basically, when you distribute GPLd
> code, it's just the source code (a copyrighted _text_ i.e. a
> combination of characters) you disclose.
>
>
I think what Ivan means is that by distributing modified OpenOCD code to
NDA partners, because of the nature of the modifications they are pretty
good documentation of the debug features covered by the NDA. Hence the GPLd
modifications effectively invalidates the NDA and allows partners to
disclose the information they were meant to keep private.
Regardless, the point is moot because a license change of OpenOCD is out of
the question. Simply because even if the current core maintainers would
actually agree that the change is good, *all* past contributors would have
to agree to relicense their submissions, or someone would have to track
down every change and reimplement it. Not doable.
/Andreas
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