I will just talk about some possible solutions for small companies. We already pay the license from Aleph One which is very very cheap from my point of view.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 10:53 PM Sebastien Lorquet <sebast...@lorquet.fr> wrote: > Oh come on you are just trying to circumvent the GPL here > > Sebastien > > Le 01/03/2023 à 15:50, Xiang Xiao a écrit : > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 10:45 PM Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> oh, I just found it: > >> > >> "The fee depends on the number of distinct Products in which Yaffs > >> will be used, and there is a base price of GBP £10,000. If more than > >> one Product is included in the same Licence there is usually a > >> reduction in the second fee." > >> > >> For a big company it is fine, but small companies could be a "don't > go!". > >> > > If the cost isn't affordable and the company doesn't want to public all > > source code, he can try this approach: > > > > 1. Enable userfs to move yaffs from kernel to userspace > > 2. Build yaffs as wasm module and run it in: > > https://github.com/apache/nuttx-apps/tree/master/interpreters/wamr > > > > This technology could satisfy all GPL requirements but without > > exposing your private source code. > > > > > >> BR, > >> > >> Alan > >> > >> On 3/1/23, Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Hi Xiang, > >>> > >>> On 3/1/23, Xiang Xiao <xiaoxiang781...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:43 PM Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi Xiang Xiao, > >>>>> > >>>>> This is a great news, but I'm afraid yaffs is not a good option for > >>>>> everybody because it uses GPL license. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Yes, but you can pay some money to switch to a more friendly license. > >>>> > >>> Do you have more info about it? Is it a reasonable price for small > >>> companies (let's say: less than U$ 5k to use as you wish or less than > >>> U$ 1 per device) ? > >>> > >>> BR, > >>> > >>> Alan > >>> >
