[Tinyos Core WG] Re: non-TEP code

[Joe Polastre]

> I think it depends how many people work on it. After the initial
> flurry of emails, no-one (including you) followed up on the issue, so
> it moved to the back burner.

In that case, Gil and I will contribute a driver.  After contribution,
you can provide input.

> IIRC, the last discussion on contrib licenses was "mostly OSI
> licenses." That is, you can pick from almost any of the standard OSI
> licenses. The "almost any" is mostly because of GPL. Due to the fact
> that TinyOS doesn't have linking, the GPL makes things tricky and so
> is out. The consensus came to this due to the problems of trying to
> agree on what "open source" is. Rather than have the contrib
> caretakers go down that rathole (and find they didn't read a piece of
> legal fine print), the conclusion was to just take the OSI's word for
> it.

The problem here is how does a company adopt the IBM license?  the
Apache license?  Obviously if I adopt the IBM license, I intend to
replace "IBM" with "company X".  Now it is no longer the IBM license.
How does the alliance deal with this condition?

What about LGPL?

-Joe