>As the main problem was his license being incompatible with GPL, this'll
>probably end up in me rewriting the code.
I would reply and frankly tell him that no one is going to use his code as long
as he has it under a stupid licensee that is unworkable for virtually
everything out there. He s
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Maurus Cuelenaere wrote:
What to do? I am not a legal expert, I sympathize with your needs and
request, I would be disappointed to see the code ripped out of your
distribution, but I do not know if there is a practical way to satisfy the
need. I am open to your suggestio
This is a response from Carlos E. Vidales:
Hello.
>
> I'm flattered that you would include my touch screen code in your mp3
> player firmware set. Who knows, one day I may buy an mp3 that uses my code
> to calibrate the screen. Sweet!
>
> I assume that the point that Mr. Chapman noted regarding
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Alex Meyer wrote:
+ *and that you do not charge any royalties or licenses
under my understanding of "public domain"
I too agree.
It's not even "Open Source" or "Free Software" by the definitions provided by
OSI and FSF with that restriction.
And as a side note:
The other problem with this license is that
+ * This sample program was written and put in the public domain
doesn't seem to be consistent with
+ * You may also modify this program and distribute copies of
+ *it provided that you include prominent notices stating + *
that you chan
mai...@svn.rockbox.org wrote:
Date: 2009-02-19 23:15:02 +0100 (Thu, 19 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 20055
Log Message:
Add generic touchscreen driver which allows calibration (apps/ layer will
follow later).
[snip]
Added: trunk/firmware/drivers/touchscreen.c
[snip]
+/* Based on ftp://ftp.embedd
