Re: [ECOS] ECOS port to Gameboy Advance

["Ramiro C. Carvalho" <ramiro dot carvalho at uol dot com dot br>]

Thanks for the comments. These were a good help. I will take a look at the
sources in the zip file i´ve got from CharmedLabs and see if i can post them
to ecos-patchs without any copyright complications.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Ramiro C. Carvalho" <ramiro.carvalho@uol.com.br>
Cc: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] ECOS port to Gameboy Advance


> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:55:18PM -0200, Ramiro C. Carvalho wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> >
> > Some time ago the the guys at CharmedLabs contributed a port to the
Gameboy
> > Advance with Xport target. This was done in version 1.3 if i remember
well
> > and it can be downloaded from their site at www.charmedlabs.com. However
as
> > it appears this port was not integrated into the main repository and so
got
> > "frozen" in that version of ECOS. Is it possible to have it integrated
into
> > the main repository so that we can use it with the newer versions of
ECOS?
> > I contacted CharmedLabs and i was told to ask the guys at EcosCentric to
> > make the port available but i am not sure if this is the correct way to
go.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a basic "railroad" for having this port available
with
> > the current version of ECOS?
>
> There was a copyright assignment agreement made with RedHat, but i
> could not find anywhere on the mailling lists the actually
> contribution. The assignment suggests its a port for eCos 2.0, so it
> should not be too hard to incorperate into anoncvs if its a clean port
> following the normal conventions.
>
> I downloaded the code from SourceForge, but its in some propriatary
> Win32 self extracting format. Since i don't have a M$ box i cannot do
> anything with it :-(
>
> To get the code into anoncvs it needs somebody at actually contribute
> the code, ie email to ecos-patchs a patch which adds it to the current
> anoncvs. Said person also needs to answer questions and made changes
> the eCos maintainers request.
>
> But there might be a problem. Since this code is now on SourceForge,
> it possible that patches from people other than CharmedLabs have been
> incorperated into the code. Such contributions will be copyright the
> contributer, not Charmed Labs. If this is so, we also need copyright
> assignments from the patch contributers. If the code is pure
> CharmedLabs, then everything is OK.
>
>         Andrew
>
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