Re: Legal help to (Apache) NuttX RTOS: adding licenseed driver

2023-12-11 Thread Shane Curcuru
Gregory Nutt wrote on 12/10/23 5:22 PM: On 12/10/2023 4:05 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: 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 t

Re: Legal help to (Apache) NuttX RTOS: adding licenseed driver

2023-12-10 Thread Shane Curcuru
Gregory Nutt wrote on 12/10/23 9:54 AM: 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

RE: Re: [EXT] Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-09-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 2023/09/07 14:32:40 "Alan C. Assis" wrote: I think GPL code shouldn't be included directly, but I think it is fair to allow GPL code be downloaded using the building system case user selected it. That's pretty close to what ASF policy is, so that's a great start. As a reminder, in terms of

RE: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 2023/08/09 00:20:42 Andrew Dennison wrote: Hi Nuttx Dev, We are negotiating with the authors of the linux device driver for the CTU CAN FD IP core to it re-licenced from GPL to so the driver can then be ported to Nuttx. Just a reminder: Apache policy prohibits GPL code, or GPL-derived code,