On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Øyvind Harboe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Looking at the list, this somehow reminds me of those heated >> discussions about GPL and D2XX. >> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/openocd-development/2009-June/thread.html >> >> Last one by Zach Welsh. >> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/openocd-development/2009-July/009518.html >> >> Both side of course have their points. Personally I am more with the opinion >> of adding the D2xx linking exception which Dominic, Rick, Spencer, >> Magnus Lundin and others agreed. On the other hand, Øyvind Harboe, >> Zach Welsh, David Brownell and others are more with the pure GPL side. >> In the end, it is not possible to relicense OpenOCD to add D2xx linking >> exception. > > It is impossible to relicense OpenOCD as it would require all > copyright holders to agree to linking + exception, which they don't.
Yes that is the outcome and I respect the decision. We are all not lawyers and it may well be true that alternative ways proposed at that time are not possible in the end. Still I felt that Zach's tone alienated others. But again that is just my personal opinion and that was why I said I was "kind of glad that he is gone". -- Xiaofan _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
