Re: [Xenomai-core] VxWorks skin is missing new VxWorks headers for RTP

[Ravid Baruch Naali <ravidbn@domain.hid>]

I imagined thats the policy.

But is it worth investing time in? or is there higher priority task I
can be assigned to?

 


Philippe Gerum wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 17:05 +0300, Ravid Baruch Naali wrote:
>   
>> Hello again,
>>
>>
>> Preface:
>>
>> As of VxWorks 6.x vxworks implement RTP which is an implementation of
>> user space processes with real time capabilities, which of course
>> include an extended API, which from my testings I discovered that we do
>> not support yet.
>>
>>
>> Currently extending the VxWorks API is not in Xenomai task list, does it
>> have any demand?
>>
>> If I'll take it as a my task, do we have any legal issues with using
>> Wind River's headers?
>>     
>
> This matter is muddy; fair use, interoperability, and copyrights of
> header files and/or their contents is a legal mess.
>
> Our policy is simple: paste-copy of any portion of any proprietary
> licensed header is unwanted and will be systematically rejected. You
> need to implement your own header, defining what you need for satisfying
> all the references within the emulator your are writing from scratch.
>
> You should also explicitly mention in the copyright notice that the
> resulting software is an emulator. We claim to mimick the original
> software as correctly as possible, according to the API specs which have
> been made publically available by the copyright holder of the original
> work, with all the limitations inherent to such exercise. In any case,
> we don't claim to produce a copy of the original software we only
> emulate. In short, Xenomai is a Chameleon, not a clone.
>
>   
>> If any of my assumptions is false or if you have any comment/answers
>> please reply.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Ravid
>>
>>     


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