Freddie Chopin wrote: > I'm not the first one to suggest such idea (modularity, drivers, ...) on > this list. > Right. And modules in the same address space are tricky license-wise. > >> The drivers would have to run in a separate process space, which means >> > > You are going to check the process spaces on every single PC that is on > this planet? Can we please stop this extremism? > I won't check (I compile my own binaries on Linux), and I don't really care what users do - they may well link OpenOCD to the FTD2XX library and run that binary on their machine.
However, as soon as a combination of OpenOCD + non-GPL plugin module is distributed as a single package/installer, you might again be in trouble with the GPL. IANAL, but anyone willing to distribute an installer package *should* be sure, and that means a proposed solution should be on the safe side. cu Michael _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
