On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Zach Welch wrote:

> Nicolas,
> 
> I figured a simple NACK would not suffice, given the range of topics
> this thread has covered.  This is not all meant for you, as I expect you
> have heard these arguments once or twice in the past. :)  I just wanted
> to post to this thread once (and for all).

In all honesty, I'm playing devil advocate all along, and prodding for 
opinions with a stick.  ;-)

> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> [snip]
> > Now... who can make that call?  Is there someone with code in OpenOCD 
> > who is against such a relicensing?
> 
> Yes.  OpenOCD *is* GPL.  I would _not_ have contributed as much as I
> have to the code, if I thought anyone could later distribute versions
> with proprietary extensions.  I will vehemently oppose and challenge all
> such use cases, though this statement deserves some clarification.

Clarifications are good, but at least this settles the licensing issue, 
as I was expecting.  I'm even surprised it took so long for someone to 
stand up and proclaim a veto.


Nicolas
_______________________________________________
Openocd-development mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development

Reply via email to