Re: MOAB - update board support

[Alex Schuilenburg <alexs 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.

Are you sure?

Copyright (C) 2000 Steven J. Hill (sjhill@realitydiluted.com)

sure looks like a copyright claim to me.

Normally attributions just go in the contributors/authors bit. If this 
work was cribbed from Linux and is redistributed under a different 
license by the author, or even with permission of the author, then an 
assignment will be required to the FSF/Red Hat/eCosCentric to ensure 
that it is indeed non-linux and non-GPL.

IANAL, but I have been discussing things like this with lawyers and I am 
pretty sure that an assignment is required in this case, or at the very 
least a written letter from the author confirming the redistribution 
under a different license (assuming that the FSF will be happy with 
holding code that is copyright somebody else).

Certainly, when eCos is finally assigned over to the FSF by eCosCentric, 
Red Hat and the maintainers, I would expect all copyright notices to be 
FSF - with the obvious exception of certain packages such as the TCPIP 
stack etc.

-- Alex


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