Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-11-09 Thread Andrew Dennison
Hi Alan, Yes - I can view that list and have successfully subscribed. Kind regards, Andrew Dennison Chief Architect and Hardware Team Lead On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 03:17, Alan C. Assis wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Sorry my delay, I opened the jira issue and they suggested me to ask > at legal-discu

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-11-09 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi Andrew, Sorry my delay, I opened the jira issue and they suggested me to ask at legal-discuss mailling list. I think it is public, so maybe everybody involved on this subject could be involved. Could you please confirm you have access to: https://lists.apache.org/list.html?legal-disc...@apache

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-11-09 Thread Andrew Dennison
Hi Alan, Just confirming you got the suggested request i sent you off-list and that it didn't end up in spam. Thanks, Andrew On Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 12:38 AM Alan C. Assis wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I have access to Apache JIRA, please send me the suggested request and > I will open a ticket ther

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-20 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi Andrew, I have access to Apache JIRA, please send me the suggested request and I will open a ticket there. BR, Alan On 10/20/23, Andrew Dennison wrote: > To answer my own question: it seems public accounts are disabled for Apache > jira. If this is the next step what's the process to get th

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-20 Thread Andrew Dennison
To answer my own question: it seems public accounts are disabled for Apache jira. If this is the next step what's the process to get this request raised? Can someone here help? On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:12 AM Andrew Dennison wrote: > Hi Brennan, > > Is this something anyone can do? If so I'll take

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Andrew Dennison
Hi Brennan, Is this something anyone can do? If so I'll take this step to move forward: it's been unclear how to get this question resolved. Kind regards, Andrew On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 1:36 AM Brennan Ashton wrote: > There is way to much speculation here (and some jus wrong statements). >

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Sebastien Lorquet
Hi Alan, Sure, I understand the motivation. Still, as entertaining as it might be, let's not forget (and not just on this point) that language models are generally unreliable. So I would tend to be cautious before calling language model output a "point of view". Whatever, this is not the mos

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi Sebastien, I think you missed the point: we are not asking legal advice for an AI, we are just trying to find other point of view that it could have found "chewing" millions of thread about license issues. BR, Alan On 10/19/23, Sebastien Lorquet wrote: > Are you seriously taking legal advic

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Brennan Ashton
There is way to much speculation here (and some jus wrong statements). Someone just needs to open an Apache JIRA ticket with legal and you will get an offical answer. --Brennan On Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 2:54 AM Andrew Dennison wrote: > Hi all, > > Wow, i didn't think we were doing anything othe

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Alin Jerpelea
Hi all, I am not a lawyer and understand the multi license code and it is not easy. Here are my thoughts: 1. The GPL v2 license is incompatible with Apache v2 license https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html 2. Software contamination https://www.mend.io/wp-content/media/

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Andrew Dennison
Hi all, Wow, i didn't think we were doing anything other than trying to help facilitate adding more driver support. The easiest approach seems to be to get the os independent components licenced by the original authors in a compatible way so we can move forward with the technical element. My reco

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-19 Thread Sebastien Lorquet
Are you seriously taking legal advice, on behalf of an apache project, from a generative language model? Sebastien Le 17/10/2023 à 22:22, Alan C. Assis a écrit : Oops, it was: you cannot enforce both at same time. Actually I think I was wrong (not about enforcing), but the main issue about D

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-17 Thread Tomek CEDRO
I don't trust that ChatGPT stuff it is known to give false answers :-P :-P Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License#Compatibility "The Apache Software Foundation and the Free Software Foundation agree that the Apache License 2.0 is a free software license, compatible with the GNU G

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-17 Thread Alan C. Assis
Oops, it was: you cannot enforce both at same time. Actually I think I was wrong (not about enforcing), but the main issue about Dual license is how the contributions will evolve. I decided to ask about it to ChatGPT: " Question: if an open-source software X was released as dual license GPL and

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-17 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi Tomek, On 10/17/23, Tomek CEDRO wrote: >> To be honest I don't see a big issue of a driver as dual license, we >> already have SocketCAN and other drivers as dual license (GPL and >> Apache, BSD and Apache, etc). The original Author said the want is to >> be released as dual license: A or lice

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-17 Thread Tomek CEDRO
> To be honest I don't see a big issue of a driver as dual license, we > already have SocketCAN and other drivers as dual license (GPL and > Apache, BSD and Apache, etc). The original Author said the want is to > be released as dual license: A or license B. Isn't is more A AND B ? A OR B == I wan

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-17 Thread Alan C. Assis
Hi Christofer, On 10/17/23, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Hi all, > > Just came across this thread while reviewing your last board report. > In the PLC4X project we have CAN drivers and we Support C in PLC4C. > However nobody has ported CAN driver to C yet (But thanks to our code > generation it shoul

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-10-17 Thread Christofer Dutz
Hi all, Just came across this thread while reviewing your last board report. In the PLC4X project we have CAN drivers and we Support C in PLC4C. However nobody has ported CAN driver to C yet (But thanks to our code generation it should be quite simple). Perhaps switching to a fully Apache Licen

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

2023-09-19 Thread Pavel Pisa
Hello Greg and others, On Thursday 14 of September 2023 17:19:16 Gregory Nutt wrote: > On 9/14/2023 8:52 AM, Alan C. Assis wrote: > > I think the authors of the driver can release the source code using > > two or more licenses. > > cd c > > We already have an example of it in NuttX: SocketCAN > >

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

2023-09-14 Thread Gregory Nutt
On 9/14/2023 8:52 AM, Alan C. Assis wrote: I think the authors of the driver can release the source code using two or more licenses. cd c We already have an example of it in NuttX: SocketCAN Since they add the OR license clause it is fine. The part that bothers me is that I cannot tell which l

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

2023-09-14 Thread Alan C. Assis
I think the authors of the driver can release the source code using two or more licenses. We already have an example of it in NuttX: SocketCAN Since they add the OR license clause it is fine. BR, Alan On 9/14/23, Alin Jerpelea wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > small oftopic regarding the license header

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

2023-09-14 Thread Alin Jerpelea
Hi Pavel, small oftopic regarding the license header: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.en.html "Apache 2.0, has patent clauses which are incompatible with GPL version 2; since I think those patent clauses are good, I made GPL version 3 compatible with them." Best regards Alin

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

2023-09-14 Thread Pavel Pisa
Hello Alin, Brennan and Andrew, On Tuesday 12 of September 2023 19:39:31 Alin Jerpelea wrote: > from my knowledge the GPL code is disabled by default and users MUST > manually enable it > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 6:26 PM Brennan Ashton > > wrote: > > I'm very confused as to the issue here. This

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-09-13 Thread Andrew Dennison
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 9:07 PM Shane Curcuru wrote: > 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.

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

2023-09-12 Thread Alin Jerpelea
Member > >The Apache Software Foundation > > > > > BR, > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > On 9/7/23, Peter van der Perk wrote: > > > > There was a discussion when the kconfig GPL switch got introduced. > > > > The li

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

2023-09-12 Thread Brennan Ashton
t; > There was a discussion when the kconfig GPL switch got introduced. > > > The libcanutils code from my perspective would be interpreted as BSD-3. > > > But it was decided otherwise > > > https://github.com/apache/nuttx-apps/pull/833#issuecomment-918875006 > &

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

2023-09-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
om/apache/nuttx-apps/pull/833#issuecomment-918875006 > > -Original Message- > From: Gregory Nutt > Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2023 3:50 PM > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: [EXT] Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx > > On 9/6/2023 5:15 AM, alin.jer

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

2023-09-07 Thread Alan C. Assis
On 9/7/23, Brennan Ashton wrote: > On Thu, Sep 7, 2023, 9:01 AM Gregory Nutt 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. >> >> We created this directory specific

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

2023-09-07 Thread Brennan Ashton
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023, 9:01 AM Gregory Nutt 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. > > We created this directory specifically to hold forks of GPL code that > can b

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

2023-09-07 Thread Gregory Nutt
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. We created this directory specifically to hold forks of GPL code that can be used with NuttX:  https://github.com/NuttX .  I am not sure of

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

2023-09-07 Thread Alan C. Assis
e.org > Subject: [EXT] Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx > > On 9/6/2023 5:15 AM, alin.jerpe...@sony.com wrote: >> There are known CAN sources that have GPL code and have been >> documented in the LICENSE File >> >> All this code is protected under the i

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

2023-09-07 Thread Peter van der Perk
: Thursday, September 7, 2023 3:50 PM To: dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: [EXT] Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx On 9/6/2023 5:15 AM, alin.jerpe...@sony.com wrote: > There are known CAN sources that have GPL code and have been > documented in the LICENSE File > > All this code

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-09-07 Thread Gregory Nutt
On 9/6/2023 5:15 AM, alin.jerpe...@sony.com wrote: There are known CAN sources that have GPL code and have been documented in the LICENSE File All this code is protected under the include GPL code config option and disabled by default Is this approach approved or we should completely remove t

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-09-06 Thread raiden00pl
; > Thanks > Alin > > > From: Shane Curcuru > Sent: den 6 september 2023 13:07 > To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > Subject: RE: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx > > On 2023/08/09 00: 20: 42 Andrew Dennison wrote: > Hi Nuttx Dev, > > We are > negotiating

RE: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-09-06 Thread alin.jerpe...@sony.com
from NuttX? Thanks Alin From: Shane Curcuru Sent: den 6 september 2023 13:07 To: dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: RE: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx On 2023/08/09 00: 20: 42 Andrew Dennison wrote: > Hi Nuttx Dev, > > We are negotiating with the authors of the linux device d

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,

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-08-09 Thread Andrew Dennison
On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 10:43, Brennan Ashton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 5:22 PM 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 > > por

Re: CTU CAN FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx

2023-08-08 Thread Brennan Ashton
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 5:22 PM 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. > > I've seen various licencing examples in the nuttx code