From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46DC76CE.8000905@domain.hid> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:04:14 +0300 From: Ravid Baruch Naali MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <46DC149F.80307@domain.hid> <1188844344.28092.46.camel@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <1188844344.28092.46.camel@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] VxWorks skin is missing new VxWorks headers for RTP List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: rpm@xenomai.org Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org 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 >> >> -- Ravid Baruch Naali ravidbn@domain.hid +972 4 6732729 +972 52 5830021