Flash driver for MSys DOC2000

[Jonathan Larmour]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> jifl@eCosCentric.com said:
> 
>> Normally you would need to provide a copyright assignment to Red Hat
>>as  per http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos?file=47 before we can
>>integrate  your contribution.
> 
> 
>> But I also see in this case that your contribution includes code from
>> GRUB. This is licenced under the "vanilla" GPL, which is something we
>>do  not wish to permit in eCos code as it undermines the special
>>licence  exception text we have.
> 
> 
>>I see the code also has David Woodhouse's name on it. David, is the
>>GRUB  code, mentioned in the patch above all yours? And if so are you
>>willing to  provide it under the eCos GPL+exception as well?
> 
> 
> The stuff in MTD CVS (grub/ directory) is all mine, IIRC. You're welcome to 
> license it under eCos-compatible terms -- are you still actually insisting 
> upon copyright assignment to Red Hat? Does it matter that I just assigned 
> the copyright to the FSF so it could actually get included in Grub? :)
> 
> Any later changes which actually make the thing work probably belong to
> Ilguiz.

And after some checking with David, I think the conclusion is indeed that 
we can now only include the patch if the FSF permit it to be included, but 
under our very slightly weaker licence (i.e. the exception to the GPL).

Iz, I think if you want the code included, you'll need to chat with the 
FSF ( mailto:gnu@gnu.org ) and get their permission to use GPL'd GRUB code 
under the eCos licence. Until then, I'm afraid the best I can do is put 
the patch up on our contributions page. Sorry :-|.

Jifl
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