On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Xiaofan Chen<xiaof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Michael
> Schwingen<rincew...@discworld.dascon.de> wrote:
>> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>>> I think this universal inf file along with the binary libusb0.sys
>>> (from libusb-win32 svn)
>>> should be bundled in the V0.2 release of OpenOCD to facilitate the
>>> Windows packagers
>>> who want to distribute an GPL compliant OpenOCD binary using
>>> libusb-win32+libftdi.
>>>
>> I think we should not distribute binaries - especially binaries where we
>> do not provide the sources for.
>>
>> Documentation for packagers (which may include documentation on how to
>> build those binaries) should be fine.
>
> Okay, agreed to your comments.
>
> Anyway, I would think V0.2 is not ready without the proper 
> libusb-win32+libftdi
> related stuff (INF file, documentation to build the latest SVN version of
> libusb-win32, etc) given that some of your guys are pushing so hard for
> a GPL compliant solution for Windows users.

On a second thoughts, if you only distribute the universal INF file, it
is not that useful actually. Windows driver contains not only the INF file,
but also the .cat Security Catalog file, the libusb0.sys file and
libusb0.dll file.



-- 
Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com
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