Hi,
Apologies for not responding earlier.
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 7:36 PM Nathan Hartman
wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 9:42 PM John D. Ament
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > +1 binding from me, with a couple of notes:
> >
> > - it could be how I'm extracting your source tars, but the packages are
> > ending up in a directory child to it. We typically look for the
> > LICENSE/NOTICE/DISCLAIMER in the root folder.
>
>
> Do you mean that you get:
>
> nuttx/LICENSE
>
> or
>
> /nuttx/LICENSE
>
> If it's the first case, I think that's usually desirable because otherwise
> the users may untar expecting to get one folder with all the contents in
> it, but end up getting a bunch of directories and files instead. When that
> happens in a directory containing many other files, it creates a big mess.
> Also as NuttX needs nuttx/ and apps/ to be sibling directories, it might be
> confusing if there's no enclosing directory. (The apps/ distribution
> provided by our project is optional and the user may substitute their own.)
>
> If it's the second case, then I agree we should fix it.
>
> What incantation are you using to extract the contents?
>
It's basically the second part of what you're describing. Understand also
that you're providing *source* releases, not *binary* releases. There may
be additional compile/build steps required to make the code work,
regardless of language/tools used.
>
> More below:
>
> - I'm ok with the LICENSE but would like you all to fix this section at
> > some point:
> >
> >
> > uIP
> >
> > ===
> >
> >
> > Many lower-level networking components of NuttX derive from uIP which
> >
> > has a similar BSD style license:
> >
> >
> >Copyright (c) 2001-2003, Adam Dunkels.
> >
> >All rights reserved.
> >
> >
> > Rhombus Math Library
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The math library used in NuttX derives from the Rhombus OS by Nick
> Johnson
> >
> > (with many, many addtions). The Rhombus OS is/was distributed under the
> > ISC
> >
> > license. The ISC licsense is a permissive license that allows people do
> >
> > anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty.
> The
> >
> > ISC license is functionally equivalent to the BSD 2-Clause and MIT
> > licenses,
> >
> > removing some language that is no longer necessary.
> >
> >
> > IGMP
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > IGMP support, if enabled, adds additional logic by Steve Reynolds:
> >
> >
> > Copyright (c) 2002 CITEL Technologies Ltd.
> >
> > All rights reserved.
> >
> >
> > This should ideally list out the actual license contents instead of an
> > explanation of what the license is.
>
>
> Good catch! We'll fix it.
>
> Thank you for your feedback,
> Nathan
>
