GoAhead WebServer in RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

Ian Caddy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> Chris Johns wrote:
>>> Eric Valette wrote:
>>>  
>>>> It is indeed. It wasn't at the time of submission (about 5 years ago
>>>> already). If I had to select one now, I would choose the one by the 
>>>> guy
>>>> that did GoHead dev and that is still compatible with goahed : appweb
>>>> <www.appweb.org>.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> Do you mean http://www.appwebserver.org/ ?
>>>   
>>
>> The license for that is pure GPL so isn't good for RTEMS.  If the 
>> GoAhead webserver is
>> indeed obsolete, then we need to identify another candidate and port it.
>>
>
>
> I was just looking at the AppWeb site and the way I read the license 
> section:
>
> "If your software is 100% GPL *or is licensed under an Open Source 
> License that is OSI  approved* and acceptable to Mbedthis Software, 
> you may use Mbedthis products and embed them in your applications or 
> devices. You do not need any other agreement or license -- the GPL is 
> all you need."
>
> The Open Source License includes the LGPL which I thought was 
> acceptable to us?
>
> It might be worth contacting the site to see if RTEMS would be an 
> acceptable platform for Mbedthis.  Maybe an RTEMS official? ;-)
>
I didn't contact them but my reading is that it would be OK to use it 
with RTEMS and any example application since they
are all open source/GPL.  But your application probably isn't GPL and it 
would be statically linked with RTEMS and their
web server -- thus requiring a commercial license.

Option 1: Completely GPL statically linked image
Option 2: Proprietary application, commercial license

This is just another example of the license hassles we want to avoid 
with RTEMS.

> regards,
>
> Ian Caddy
>
>