On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Ian <li...@dangerousprototypes.com> wrote: > Are you familiar with the ST and TI licensing? Thanks for the suggestion. > I'm going to look into it a little more, I'm about to start a few ARM > projects.
I will think they are similar to what Microchip has. Anyway, you can look at them. > I've seen the other copies of the Microchip stack too. I've even seen lots > of copies 'relicensed' to GPL, but the license isn't OSI compatible. That is correct. They limit the use of the stack to be used with Microchip products. Re-licensing them to GPL is not okay. > I got a take down notice from Microchip for making part of their code > available with > a (Microchip PIC) development board I designed (without changing the license > or headers, etc). Now I won't distribute anything (sample code, demos, etc) > that isn't explicitly open source licensed. I see. You do not need to distribute the whole stack, you just need to distribute your modifications. Just like the examples here (from Jan Axelson). http://www.lvr.com/winusb.htm > I'd enjoy writing my own open source USB stack, but just don't have the > time. I'm about to hire someone to write a stack that I can then release > under MIT or other open source licensing. Some of the PIC USB chips are nice > (the 18f24j50 is a 3v3 hybrid of the 16bit and 8bit families for under $2), > it would be great to have a truly open, redistributable stack for them. > That is nice! There are some open source implementations of USB stacks for PIC, but none of them are as good as Microchip's. Microchip's USB stack also has quite some bugs though. Reference: Open source USB PIC projects: http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=235427 USB related links: http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=123533 Bugs of Microchip USB stacks: http://www.microchip.com/forums/fb.aspx?m=468985 > I'll stop here though. I'm a lurker on this list, and I'm pretty off topic. I see. Ok, we will stop here. But you are welcome to go to Microchip forum to post your things. Or I can help to post the links to your project here. http://www.microchip.com/forums/tt.aspx?forumid=182 Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
