Dominic, I agree with your comments, and feel it is a shame this whole situation has occurred.
> 2) The OpenOCD project itself released binaries linked > against FTD2XX on its Berlios page, for example > openocd-cygwin-ftd2xx-20060213.tar.gz. I don't think it's > totally unreasonable to extrapolate some right of distributing > OpenOCD+FTD2XX based on this... > > 3) I would be willing to add a license exception that allows > linking with the FTD2XX library and I invite other major > contributors to do the same. The result may not be a OpenOCD > rev. 2000+ that's accompanied with this exception, but I > suppose we might find some revision where we can formally > grant our users a right they have been executing for almost > four years. > Being a contributor since rev 7 i have no objections to adding a ftd2xx exception. GPL is important, but i do not understand people's objections to adding an exception - who exactly is this hurting? It would be a shame to have to fork openocd. Cheers Spen _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
