Ronald Vanschoren pisze: > Link-kit is definitely better then build-kit, but what are we doing > here? Dynamic linking is also a "link-kit". In my interpretation of GPL, > there is nothing illegal to distributing an OpenOCD binary that _CAN_ > link to FTD2XX but doesn't require it. We (OpenOCD community) would not > distribute FTD2XX ourselves, but point users to the FTDI download page > and say "if you download the DLL and put it in the OpenOCD directory, > something magic could happen". I'm assuming here it's not legal to > distribute FTD2xx, I don't know about that as I don't know what license > it's available under.
This is not required, because when one installs the drivers for FTDI based device, the ftd2xx.dll is automatically copied from the "driver package" to windows/system32 folder. The library (dll) just has to be "somewhere" where it can be reached via PATH variable. So if one has FT2232 based dongle, one has the library somewhere on the system - no additional downloading and copying that anywhere is required. BTW in such scenario it would be best to modify the code so that it could use BOTH libraries, selectable somehow during runtime (automatically or manually). 4\/3!! _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
