Re: A naive question on issues related to code in public repository

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:44:36AM -0700, sandeep wrote:
> hi ecos maintainers,
> 
> while searching for ecos on google, I came across this
> link -
> 
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/maintainers/assignments.html
> 
> that mentions 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Harrison, David
> ----
> dah@cradle.com
> ----
> Cradle Technologies
> ----
> 31 Oct 00
> ----
> Red Hat 	
> ----
> Yes
> ----
> Ecos Ported to the Cradle UMS platform.
> ---------------------------------------------------

31 October 2000 is before my time, so i cannot speak about this
specific case. Maybe it was never actually submitted? Maybe the
quality was not good enought at the time? Maybe the maintainers were
overloaded with other work and never got around to it?

> since every organisation thinks only of their benefits, i wonder
> what stops them from trying to get in public ecos repository? is it
> that, they need to give a separate copyright assignment to
> ecoscentric now??

The RedHat assignment should still be valid. They could optionally
assign it to eCosCentric if they wanted to. They at least need to
approach us and submit their code again. If its been kept up to date
with anoncvs and the code is of good quality and there is somebody who
will make the changes we suggest it could be added to anoncvs.

The resent incorperation of the ATMEL JTST port is a good example of
how it should be done. The code was good to start with so my comments
and requests for change were mostly minor. Andrea was quick to respond
which also realy helped.

        Andrew