On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:37 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/9/2020 3:33 PM, Gregory Nutt wrote: > >>>> 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. > >> > >> The GPL projects no longer exist. I keep snapshots because they are > >> necessary to NuttX and are not generally available elsewhere (without > >> a bit of Googling): e.g. kcoinfig-frontends. I also have some > >> snapshots of old GPL tools that runs with NuttX; newer versions > >> probably do not: Eg., genromfs. There are other necessary tarballs > >> there just to support on-stop-shopping: E.g., gperf > >> > >> There are also custom implementations for NuttX that leverage GPL > >> code but for which there is no upstream project like the NuttX host > >> nxfuse implementation. > >> > >> And all of the buildtest files are there. > >> > >> No, there is nothing that can be moved upstream. > > > > There are also binaries for loading into WiFi chips there. You cannot > > use the WiFi chips with the firmware binaries. There are not GPL and > > can be free distributed. But they are not BSD or Apache either. > > > > Everything is critical for building NuttX and supporting NuttX > > configurations and testing. Nothing can be in an open repository. > > Nothing can go upstream. Nothing can go to the Apache repositories > > (without some special dispensation). > > That is just the tools repository. There is also a uClibc++ port to > NuttX that would never be accepted upstream and the buildroot repository > for building NuttX toolchains. This derives from the original > buildroot, hacked down to the bare bones, and make to build NuttX > toolchains. Is not compatible with upstream buildroot (or even > marginally related to it). > > These also must be protected. > > There is also a port the LLVM libc++ somewhere. I don't recall where. > That was done by Alan and is a critical piece of a NuttX solution for > C++11 support. I don't think that this is a candidate for upstreaming > either, at least not in its current form.
I had been confused earlier and thought that we were talking about the buildroot repo. Now I am on the same page, and yes, the contents of the 'tools' repository are crucial to NuttX. I think back to last year when Yann Morin's kconfig-frontends repository disappeared from the earth for a month or two because of moving apartments, and it was a good thing that you (Greg) had had the good sense to host your own mirror. I shudder to think what would happen if we lost these bits. They must be protected. Nathan
