Re: [ECOS] RE : [ECOS] Licence consideratios.

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Vincent Catros wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:57 PM
> > To: Vincent Catros
> > Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Licence consideratios.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:23:57PM +0100, Vincent Catros wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm about to deliver an FTP server.
> > > This server has been originaly developped for RTEMs and therefore
> > > was released under RTEMs licence.
>
> In fact, licence terms were not included into the files I downloaded.
> I have contacted the original contributor that said to me the package
> was released under "RTEMs licence".
> Regarding the name of four licences, I assumed it was "Primary licence".

i.e. http://www.rtems.com/license/LICENSE

> Then I have included RTEMs "Primary licence" terms into files and
> submited those files to the original contributor for agreement.
> He gave me this agreement.
>
> But I can't switch to eCos licence as, I think, all contributors should
> give their agreement.
>
> Is this a problem to include files into eCos distribution?

After some consideration, we are unable to include it. IANAL of course, but 
it appears to not fit with the existing eCos license. The RTEMS license 
says: : "[...] linking other files with RTEMS objects to produce an 
executable application, does not by itself cause the resulting executable 
application to be covered by the GNU General Public License."

However, these files will be linked with non-RTEMS objects. Therefore the 
full GPL would apply, therefore it is not acceptable in the main source 
base, sorry. We _can_ put it up in our contributions section though, just 
not include it in the main source base.

Jifl
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