Re: MOAB - update board support

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 07:47, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > Hi Gary
> >
> >
> > > +//
> > > +// ECC support - adapted from Linux:
> > > +//
> > > +//  drivers/mtd/nand_ecc.c
> > > +//
> > > +//  Copyright (C) 2000 Steven J. Hill (sjhill@realitydiluted.com)
> > > +//                     Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc.
> > > +//
> >
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1) How generic is this? Should it actually go into io/flash or even
> >   service/crc?
>
>
> It's very specific to the NAND ECC code, so no it doesn't belong 
> anywhere outside the FLASH tree.  Maybe it could be moved to the
> IO/FLASH area, but even that's debatable.
>
>
> > 2) What is going on with the copright/license here?  
>
>
> It's just like many other files where we have cribbed pieces from the
> Linux kernel - those pieces are attributed, with permission, to the
> original author, but (IMO) no copyright is claimed or implied on this
> derived work.

I sense creep here. At least JFFS2 is a self-contained package primarily 
because it's a self-contained external project. But if this code becomes 
part of a standard eCos NAND flash driver (whether in a general layer or 
not), then that dilutes what having copyright assignments is all about. It 
becomes difficult to unravel from the rest of eCos.

I'll reply with more off this list.

Jifl
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