I just noticed that this conversation was occurring on
nu...@googlegroups.com. Not sure how we got there. Moving back to
dev@nuttx.apache.org where I thought we were all along.
There is one big difference. I have spoken (via email) with all of the authors
and copyright holders and each has given their support and encouragement to
bring the code into NuttX.
Is being developing a branch of Nutt is one obvious one. Sure if you want go
and merge it but at some point before graduation it will need to be sorted.
Yes, this is a custom port that was developed specifically for use in
NuttX. The primary authors of the port are Peter Van Der Perk (NXP) and
myself and is based on a common SocketCAN core stack by Oliver Hartkopp
(VW): "... that's a cool idea and I definitely support your idea to
support SocketCAN for NuttX!" I have worked through this with all
players include Peter's supervisor.
Corporate legal is the bottleneck. I doubt that corporate legal sees
any benefit to the corporation by conforming to ASF expectations. I
think they believe that the BSD license is sufficient.
I will start looking into what is needed to re-verify the branch and
merge it into master next week after we branch off for the 9.1 release.
It will be so good to have this resolved. Thanks for your help.
Greg
