Re: TMS470

Jack Klein <jackklein@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:45:16 +0000 (UTC), dr@xxxxxxxx wrote in
: comp.arch.embedded:
:
:> The GPL/GNU licenses are "anti-copyright" copyrights in that the legal
:> mechanism of copyright is used to require licenseces (sp?) to make their
:> work public and publicly available.
:>
:> For personal use that's probably not a concern but in a comercial context
:> it's potentially a disaster. Having a competitor sue for a copy of
:> software that was a year or two or three in development is an
:> unsupportable risk.
:
: How familiar are you with the GPL? It does not require the
: distribution of any source code that you develop that merely uses the
: compiler's library and the operating system's APIs.

Jack - I read the/a GNU license numerous years ago which required
distributing source and a part of a recent GPL license which does the
same. The first difficulty, though, is the agreement's length - 5 pages
requires careful reading by someone versed in the intracasies of copyright
law.

Below is the section of the GPL license where I stopped reading.

Hul

/* start of section of GPL license */
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
or,

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
/* end of section of GPL license */



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