Thank you Greg!

Indeed, that should be the path in this case, it should be treated as 3rd
party code.

Licensing a software as dual license (or triple license as in this case)
makes things more complicated.

Best Regards,

Alan

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 11:54 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/10/2023 7:15 AM, Alan C. Assis wrote:
>
> I understand your point. And in fact I think the issue is not your
> contribution itself, but the future contribution from developers of RTEMS
> and Linux that are using GPL.
>
> I think we have to be careful with the word "contribution".  The ASF
> cannot accept any contribution that is licensed and copyrighted by some
> other entity.  To "contribute" the code is to donate the code to the ASF
> without retaining any claims to it.  Then the code belongs to the ASF and
> can be re-licensed as Apache 2.0 with the ASF copyright.
>
> What you are talking about has to be treated as third party code that
> resides with the Apache NuttX code.  It is not Apache NuttX code.
>

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