Re: File headers on 3rd party files [was Re: ICLA needed?]

2019-12-15 Thread Gregory Nutt
I would never permit anything that was not BSD or MIT into the repositories on into the build (and now Apache). It is our policy that there will be no licensing surprises to the end-user. There should be no concerns there. When I did a quick review of the last release I did find one GPL fi

Re: File headers on 3rd party files [was Re: ICLA needed?]

2019-12-15 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > I would never permit anything that was not BSD or MIT into the repositories > on into the build (and now Apache). It is our policy that there will be no > licensing surprises to the end-user. There should be no concerns there. When I did a quick review of the last release I did find one

Re: File headers on 3rd party files [was Re: ICLA needed?]

2019-12-15 Thread Gregory Nutt
We also do a less common thing that you should be aware of: We have build scripts that download 3rd party code from the source repositories or releases, apply patches to it, and build it into NuttX. That's fine as long as the licenses are not Category X.[2] I would never permit anything that

File headers on 3rd party files [was Re: ICLA needed?]

2019-12-15 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Also, there are no unmodified 3rd party files. Third party files were used > as starting points for the development of NuttX-specific applications. All > were highly modified and converted to the NuttX coding standard. See here for how to treat 3rd party works [1]. In general the chang