On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:00 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Should (or shouldn't) this become an official part of the Apache NuttX > >> project? I don't think anything stops anyone from hosting a mirror > >> anywhere they wish. > > > > It can't because it contains GPL code. My concern is that with no > > project organization to manage it, I do not want to put the master in > > any location where multiple people can modify it. I need to manage > > the code in lieue of a project to control it. > > > > the github NuttX repository has too many people with write access. I > > would not be comfortable putting anything there. > > I understand that there have been exceptions made for Apache projects to > allow GPL support tools into Apache project. I would not have any > difficulty granting those repositories to the project. But I cannot > comfortably use the github NuttX repository.
Yes it was said that ASF allows well-known GPL'd support tools to be hosted. As another alternative, perhaps the improvements can be contributed upstream to those GPL projects. That could have several benefits: (1) no need to host customized versions anymore (2) we'd benefit from their further improvements without having to merge those ourselves (3) more word-of-mouth advertising for NuttX Cheers, Nathan
