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Article: 12615 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks,comp.arch.embedded,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fred smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Subject: Re: Kermit for VxWorks
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Werner Schiendl <ws-news@gmx.at> wrote:
:> 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.
: Depends on the point of view. Usually, you compile everything into one big
: binary and burn that beast to Flash or whatever starage the device has. So
: you would in fact add the gkermit sources to your VxWorks image. VxWorks has
: no concept of processes and executables stored in files out of the box. You
: can load object modules at runtime, but they are linked against the target
: too. I don't think that the GPL handles that particular case very good.
OK, obviously I was speaking out of ignorance. Not knowing anything about
Vxworks I didn't realize it was an embedded system and that you couldn't
use gkemrit on it WITHOUT having them all linked/distributed together.
Open mouth, insert food, chew vigorously. :^(
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---- Fred Smith -- fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------