gnupic: gputils license query
Subject:
Re: gputils license query
From:
Byron A Jeff ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jan 2005 03:55:13 +0000
Message-Id: <20050117035508.GA2117@cleon.cc.gatech.edu>
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:25:59PM +1300, David McNab wrote:
> Byron A Jeff wrote:
> >Now getting back to your PICforth
>
> Sorry for being pedantic, but it's called 'pic18Forth' (till someone or
> myself come up with a better name). 'PicForth' is an existing product
> for PIC16Fxxx chips, developed by Samuel Tardieu.
No problem. We do need to differentiate it.
>
> >there are some potential issues there.
> >You stated in your announcement that the threaded interpreter will be
> >included with the users object. The license on that piece of code could
> >cause
> >issues because it's not the users code, but is linked to the users code.
> >So that's a derived work and therefore the user's code is subject to that
> >license.
>
> I've thought about this already, and decided that the host compiler
> itself can be GPL.
Right.
>
> However, the VM core, primitives and lib routines will need to be LGPL,
> with an added clause stipulating that in cases where developer-users are
> distributing finished hardware products to consumers containing firmware
> created via Pic18forth, the developer-user is exempt from providing
> source code to the consumer.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
That's basically the zlib license, but it does take some careful reading.
BAJ
