On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, David Brownell wrote: > It's my understanding that verions of OpenOCD built using > the "libftd2xx" library (FTDI's binary code) can not be > redistributed without violating the OpenOCD license (GPL). > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs > > Reason: the libftd2xx code clearly isn't a "system library" > since it's third-party code, and there's no license exception > granted by OpenOCD. > > Unless someone has a particularly strong contrary argument > (like relicensing all of OpenOCD) my suggestion is to merge > the attached patch. It updates the User's Guide to discourage > its use except in personal builds.
Agreed. Furthermore, my own testing with both libraries showed libftd2xx marginally faster, and not many times faster as the doc is claiming. OTOH, libftdi is already packaged by most distributions. On Fedora you only need to do "yum install libftdi-devel" and you're set to compile openocd. Nicolas _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
