Hi, > The incubator-nuttx project contains only a small amount of 3rd part > software. The incubator-nuttx-apps repository contains considerably more. > This is not raw, 3rd party code but highly modified and highly adapted code. > Third party copyrights are retained out of respect respect the Copyrights of > the original code that the customized code derived from.
Unless the changes are significant I leave them under the original license. Changes like reformatting or stylistic changes are not significant ones. See [1]. > I am not sure of the status of the existing 3rd party code. Version control history might be able to help you with the answer to that. > We have talked about getting SGAs for all 3rd party code or of just > grand-fathering the older changes in. combat If it stays as 3rd party code and is under a compatible license there no need for a software grant. If you want it to be ALv2 then there would been to be a grant. > I was wondering about new 3rd party code coming into the repository. As an > Apache (podling) project, can we continue to bring in 3rd party code > willy-nilly? It’s OK to do so, but the 3rd party community should be respected, even if the license (say MIT or BSD) allows it, we don’t want to be seen at being involve in hostile forks. In general it’s nice to ask for permission to use rather than just taking, again even if the license allows it. If possible it’s also preferable to just use that 3rd party code as a dependancy and not make it part of the NuttX repo. > Or do we need SGAs first? If it 3rd party code there no need for a SGA as long as the original headers stay on it. Thanks, Justin 1. https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party
