Hi Pavel, welcome back it's been a while! I hope that you'll stick around to submit some more good patches. You've contributed lots of nice stuff in the past!
GPL stops closed source target & interface for OpenOCD. That's one of the *main* reasons I got involved with OpenOCD in the first place. I also knew that since the project was GPL to start with, it wouldn't switch to another license once a sufficient # of contributors had signed up. At least not without *everybody* agreeing to a license change. This ensures that any license change won't be full of holes. It would be absolutely hell to try come up with some sort of GPL with exception that did not open up for closed source target/interface's. Personally I don't think it can be done, LGPL isn't it and nothing else specifi has been suggested. I *know* there are hardware vendors out there that are aching to use OpenOCD together with closed source target support, and they *would* find any tiny loophole and throw money at lawyers to exploit it. There are lots of closed source debug solutions out there for those targets/interfaces that are not willing to open up. Good for 'em! That's not what OpenOCD is about. Now, I *know* you can fix these USB problems with both hands tied behind your back in your sleep with a modest effort. The acceptable solutions have been outlined. For sure it's a million times easier for you to solve this technically than legally. You stand out amongst the hardware vendors because you have made *very* significant contributions in the past. How about using the bitq stuff forl a generic JTAG over TCP/IP solution? ;-) Giving up the most important line of defense against closed source target & interface support due to some silly little technical problem can't possibly make any sense to you? -- Øyvind Harboe Embedded software and hardware consulting services http://www.zylin.com _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
