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Article: 12604 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!panix!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news-in.ConnActivity.com!fcshome!fredex
From: fred smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Subject: Re: Kermit for VxWorks
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References: <9ikjrq$asm@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> <3B4DDE9B.C12DEF3@digidata.com> <9ikojr$r9c$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu> <8_H37.5136$z21.527498@newsc.telia.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:33:01 GMT
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Adam Dunkels <adam@dunkels.net> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:> In article <3B4DDE9B.C12DEF3@digidata.com>,
:> Doug Dotson <ddotson@digidata.com> wrote:
<snip>
:> I'd be glad to give it a shot if I had VxWorks developer tools to
:> build the kermit function and VxWorks itself to test it, but I
:> have neither. Would someone who does have them like to try adapting
:> G-Kermit to VxWorks? There's clearly a demand, at least among those
:> who don't mind devoting somewhere between 30 and 80K, depending on
:> the architecture, to a file-transfer function, and it doesn't sound
:> like too much work.
: But gkermit is released under the GPL, which means that you cannot
: distribute a product that includes gkermit unless you are willing to
: release and distibute all source code for your project, including the
: source code to VxWorks. I don't know much about VxWorks, but I assume that
: it is not free software licensed under the GPL.
Er, no, I don't think that's what the GPL says.
If you distribute a GPL'd work you must make its source available.
If you distribute a work DERIVED FROM a GPL'd work you must make its source
available.
It doesn't say anything about distributing source for everything else in
the package accompanying the GPL'd work. I don't think the discussion was
about adding gkermit to the VxWorks package (though I don't see anything
wrong with that either), but merely about trying to use a kermit protocol
engine to do file transfers to/from VxWorks.
Don't listen to MS's FUD about how the GLL infects everything it touches,
because in an example like this it doesn't.
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------
"For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged
sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------