on the other hand, plugin based openocd, which should load non-free
library for debugging targets, is nice idea.
in such case openocd and openocd-dev{,el} packages should remain gpl
and distributable in any distro and closed source drivers/plugins only
in non-free repositories.
something like drivers in kernel

best regards
jiri

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:16:14PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:21 AM, Jay <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to add support for a new JTAG/SWD interface adapter called EUD
> > (embedded usb debugger) for openOCD. I'm adding a source file (eud.c)  in
> > "src/jtag/drivers/" folder.  I'm using proprietary "headers" and supplied
> > DLL file to link with my source.
> 
> I do not want to spoil the fun but last time there was a long and kind of
> ugly discussions about linking openocd (GPL license) with proprietary
> libraries (ftdi d2xx in that case) and the conclusion was that you can not
> redistribute the openocd binary you build this way to the public.
> https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/mailman/openocd-devel/thread/1245813300.8477.545.camel%40localhost/
> 
> So you need to take note of this.
> 
> BTW, the issue then becomes a non-issue now since the ftdi mpsse
> backend kind of make the d2xx backend not really needed and OpenOCD
> has removed the obsolete d2xx support.
> 
> -- 
> Xiaofan
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