PPC405GPr with RTEMS + Support? (+ License talk)

[Steve Holle]

At 04:00 PM 8/5/2004, Smith, Gene wrote:
>Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com> wrote, On 8/5/2004 4:07 PM:
>>I don't need a lawyer to know that I wouldn't touch the IBM code and
>>you are spouting the party line on the Linux kernel.  All that ranting
>>on my part has paid off. :)
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>Don't know about your "ranting" but seem obvious from read of the RTEMS 
>and GPL licenses that you can't derive from GPL code that is not initially 
>released/copyrighted with the RTEMS addendum, unless you distribute to 
>customers your whole project (rtems code + application + GPL derived 
>driver code) all as pure GPL.
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>So I should treat the IBM code as radioactive? Guess the IBM wording kind 
>of implies that IBM could someday claim a patent on the code. Plus the 
>thing about $1k libility sounds weird. I can see you would not want this 
>verbage in the rtems tree, as using it would require.
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>>NetBSD has a driver for the 405 EMAC in src/sys/arch/powerpc/ibm4xx
>>based upon my last checkout of their source.
>>The dev subdirectory has if_emacs* which should be exactly what you
>>want as a starting point.  There are multiple people on the list who
>>have transformed BSD network drivers into RTEMS drivers.
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>Thanks for the pointer to netbsd. I hadn't looked there. However, 
>if_emacs.c has this statement in its starting comments:
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>3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
>  * must display the following acknowledgement:
>  * This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by
>  * Wasabi Systems, Inc.
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>I think this is the dreaded "advertising clause." I believe I have also 
>seen similar words in the RTEMS bsd stack files. Would this requirment 
>somehow be superceded by the overarching NetBSD or RTEMS license? Or do 
>you really have to put something on your device label or manual saying 
>"OAR RTMES + Wasabi NetBSD + U.Calif BSD Inside"?

I'm wondering the same thing about the GoAhead Webserver code in 
RTEMS.  What license applies there?


>The NetBsd license page
>http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/redistribution.html
>says this:
>2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>
>What does it all mean?  :-(
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>Steve Holle
>Link Communications, Inc.
>1035 Cerise Rd.
>Billings, MT  59101
>sholle at link-comm.com