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> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:18:21PM -0500, Mike Cravens wrote:
> > Could you encourage more participation in the porting process by others
> > interested in keeping the source open?
> >
> > If you close the source, I might as well use VxWorks.
>
> I am not closing the source. Please note that there are new GPL releases
> of RTLinux on our web site nearly every week. We have a long
> track record of delivering GPL code. Longer than anyone else in this
> area, by some years.
>
> > Many people are just arriving at the real-time and embedded party.
> >
> > Getting people to contribute commits them in ways beyond money and economics.
> >
> > There are some things that die if you hold them too tightly.
>
> Contributed source and ports are great. Please send 'em.
> What we've found is that most RTLinux users want to work on their
> own apps. RT kernel code is really specialized.
> If you look at the credits file sent with RTLinux, you will
> see that there are some exceptions -- and I, for one, really appreciate them.
> Tomasz, Jerry, and others have been critical. What I have rejected,
> and will continue to reject are changes that I think are technically
> wrong, poorly done, or violate the base paradigm. An advantage of
> open source is that others who disagree are free to pursue their own
> path. And if their ideas turn out to be good, we may even change our
> minds. A good example of how this works is the Linux fbcon component
> that came after a conceptually similar but weak alternate method
> was rejected.
Hi Victor,
If RTLinux is truly GPL, can you state clearly that the patent described
in the RTLinux distribution will only be used defensively, and not as a
means to:
a) place restrictions on derivative works
b) to force royalty payments from either RTLinux or derivatives.
Regards, Stuart
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