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Re: RedBoot licensing question


> > Somebody I know wants to use RedBoot for a project, but his management
> > thinks they can't becuase they want to:
> > 
> >  1) include some "proprietary" functionality for which they don't want to
> >     distribute sources.
> >     
> >  2) restrict redistribution of the resulting bootloader binary.
> > 
> > AFAICT, this is the same as linking proprietary application code with eCos
> > and limiting distribution of the resulting binary and refusing to distribute
> > source for the proprietary application routines.  
> > 
> > That's allowed, right?
> 
> Under the latest license (eCos 2.0 beta), this is explicitly allowed.
> This is partly why I made additions to RedBoot be done at link-time and
> not compile-time (i.e. there is no "table of commands" to compile).

The linker-section table trick used to do that is damned cool in it's own
right.  I've since used it to make some of my apps extensible at link time.

> Of course, one still has to follow the GPL for the "core" code, but this can
> be as simple as quoting a URL to http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/

Cool. That's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure before I sent my
buddy in to joust with his management.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

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