[Openocd-development] OpenOCD/FTD2XX: license recap

2009-07-13 Thread Zach Welch
Hi all, Last week, I had a conference call with Dan Ravicher, Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, and two of his colleagues. He helped answer some questions that came up for me during the licensing debate. Further, he has generously offered to take questions from the community rega

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Bruck
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 23:30, Duane Ellis wrote: > Zach Welch wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Here is the full list of GPL-compliant solutions for libftd2xx GPL >> compliance, after further review, consideration, and enumeration: >> >> 1) Documentation:  build it yourself! >> 2) Build-Kit: automate the bu

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-25 Thread Zach Welch
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:17 -0700, Rob Barris wrote: > On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:32 PM, openocd-development-requ...@lists.berlios.de > wrote: > > >>> > >>> 4) libftdi-ftd2xx: ABI compatible with libftdi, wraps ftd2xx > >> > >> > >> > >> How would ftd2xx be linked here? Via LoadLibrary (dlopen) and

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-25 Thread Rob Barris
On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:32 PM, openocd-development-requ...@lists.berlios.de wrote: >>> >>> 4) libftdi-ftd2xx: ABI compatible with libftdi, wraps ftd2xx >> >> >> >> How would ftd2xx be linked here? Via LoadLibrary (dlopen) and >> friends? >> I'd volunteer to create such a solution. > > We build

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Duane Ellis
Zach Welch wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is the full list of GPL-compliant solutions for libftd2xx GPL > compliance, after further review, consideration, and enumeration: > > 1) Documentation: build it yourself! > 2) Build-Kit: automate the build on users' machines > 3) XXX: to be revealed, if legal >

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Yusuf Caglar AKYUZ
Zach Welch wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:14 +0100, Ian Guffick wrote: >> >>> Here is the full list of GPL-compliant solutions for libftd2xx GPL >>> compliance, after further review, consideration, and enumeration: >>> >>> 1) Documentation: build it yourself! >>> 2) Build-Kit: automate the bui

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:26 -0700, Zach Welch wrote: > > We can raise money to pay for the signing costs; presumably, they don't > need to be signed during development testing. > My IT guys said that in Vista unsigned drivers can be loaded if you enable a boot time option and it only lasts fo

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Zach Welch
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:14 +0100, Ian Guffick wrote: > > > Here is the full list of GPL-compliant solutions for libftd2xx GPL > > compliance, after further review, consideration, and enumeration: > > > > 1) Documentation: build it yourself! > > 2) Build-Kit: automate the build on users' machines

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Ian Guffick
> Here is the full list of GPL-compliant solutions for libftd2xx GPL > compliance, after further review, consideration, and enumeration: > > 1) Documentation: build it yourself! > 2) Build-Kit: automate the build on users' machines > 3) XXX: to be revealed, if legal > 4) libftdi-ftd2xx: ABI comp

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Zach Welch
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 19:20 +0200, Dominic wrote: > Hello Zach, > > > > thank you for this posting. I was just formulating a reply to some of > your last emails, but it's probably better if what I had to say > remains in the privacy of my harddrive. Since you have said that, I am intensely curi

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Dominic
Hello Zach, thank you for this posting. I was just formulating a reply to some of your last emails, but it's probably better if what I had to say remains in the privacy of my harddrive. On Wednesday 24 June 2009 18:30:09 Zach Welch wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is the full list of GPL-compliant sol

[Openocd-development] openocd, ftd2xx

2009-06-24 Thread Zach Welch
Hi all, Here is the full list of GPL-compliant solutions for libftd2xx GPL compliance, after further review, consideration, and enumeration: 1) Documentation: build it yourself! 2) Build-Kit: automate the build on users' machines 3) XXX: to be revealed, if legal 4) libftdi-ftd2xx: ABI compatible