From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:01:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:01:43 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com ([204.127.198.38]:33446 "EHLO rwcrmhc51.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:01:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3E42B37E.2080202@kegel.com> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:11:58 -0800 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) X-Accept-Language: de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Monta Vista software license terms Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org My two bits: 1. I am eternally grateful for the contributions Montavista has made to the gnu tools. Their recent contribution of a multithread cabable gdbserver to gdb-5.3 is invaluable. 2. I contantly see Montavista people feeding back improvements here and there, and they are quick to respond when I have questions about issues like the ppc405 erratum 77 workarounds. And I've never given them any money! Montavista *is* playing nice. As far as I can tell, they obey the rules, and actively feed their improvements back to the community. Yes, they could do more -- but they don't have to, and if they did, it might endanger their cash flow and thus the stream of improvements they're feeding back to the community. Please let them be. I like what they're doing. - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045