On 13/07/2017 15:09, Christian Mauderer wrote: > Am 13.07.2017 um 04:33 schrieb Chris Johns: >> On 13/07/2017 12:22, Sichen Zhao wrote: >>> 在 2017年07月12日 21:52, Gedare Bloom 写道: >>>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Sichen Zhao <1473996...@qq.com> wrote: >>>>> +These files are imported from FreeBSD. >>>>> +These files is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public >>>>> License * version 2. >>>> We should not pollute the RTEMS sources with GPL2 code. Is there an >>>> alternative approach to use? >>> The another way is to directly use dtb binary file, but bin file also >>> has a gpl2 license. So this way is not acceptable. >>> Gedare said the scripts directory may be appropriate for rtems-tools.git >>> or something. So i can provide a default one that can be used, it may be >>> downloadable from somewhere e.g. in rtems-tools or from a FTP. >>> And this is the way to keep GPL code from RTEMS sources. >>> What do you think about? >> >> The ftp site is ok but please make sure you have the source with any binary >> file >> and all copyright details are valid. >> >> We should keep the rtems-tools.git repo as free of GPL as possible. >> >> Chris >> > > Seems like no one wants the device tree files in any rtems repo. Do we > need an extra rtems-devicetree repository for all BSPs that support > device trees (currently two)?
Yeah, I do not really know. It is a sort of gray area and not only for the licenses but how we integrate it. It is sort of like boot loaders and how they fit in. I hope this discussion can finding a way we can make this work. My concern with rtems-tool.git is the license for it 2-clause BSD and then we place some GPL code in it and users do not know and are caught out with compliance issues. For example I have some GPL code in the rtemstoolkit which is from libiberty [1]. I included as a way to get something working on all hosts quickly. I would like to change this but need the time to do that. At the moment rtems-tools is only on hosts so a bit simpler for users to manage. > Maybe one that just takes over the scripts > from FreeBSD to import the device tree sources from Linux? Does FreeBSD import the files into it's source tree from Linux? Can I assume loading a GPL DTB does not pollute the application? Chris [1] https://git.rtems.org/rtems-tools/tree/rtemstoolkit/libiberty/pex-common.c _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
