Zach Welch wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 01:36 +0300, Yusuf Caglar AKYUZ wrote: >> Zach Welch wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I will try to summarize the OpenOCD license situation for the community: >>> >>> - OpenOCD is licensed under the GPL -- without exceptions. >>> - Binaries linking to FTD2XX may NOT be distributed. >>> - Neither static nor shared, direct nor indirect. >>> - There will be no future exceptions to this rule. >>> - Past "violations" will not be pursued, but we expect compliance now. >>> >>> The "best for open source" solution will be to remedy all deficiencies >>> in libusb and libftdi, even if that takes more time and labor. This >>> will provide a fully open source solution for users, which should be >>> preferred by the community of maintainers, contributors, and vendors. >>> Conversely, preference to the proprietary driver as a long-term solution >>> undermines the free software community and the freedoms of its users. >>> >>> Until an open software solution manifests itself, there appear to be two >>> acceptable (if hard) workarounds to distribute binaries to end-users: >>> >>> 1) A "build kit" can be distributed that compiles the source code from >>> scratch on the machine of each user that wants to use the closed FTD2XX >>> driver. This solution can be developed in time for the 0.2.0 release. >>> Is someone already working on one and will share it with the community? >>> >> I'm currently trying this approach. I'm trying to build latest SVN >> head and preparing a simple wrapper GUI based on Qt, though it is a >> little bit slow on my Windows XP virtual machine. > > Excellent!! You will be praised highly for delivering such a solution, > so please keep the community apprised of your progress. > > Out of sheer curiosity: how will your Qt wrapper be licensed? :) :) >
Whichever license is appropriate, both for OpenOCD and FTD2XX. LGPL may be? Regards, Caglar > Thanks, > > Zach > _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
