Re: [iot-pmc] [CQ 10820] FreeRTOS + TCP Version: 8 and above

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Similar to the Arduino software discussion, except this is for the 
embedded C client rather than C++.

From the "Guidelines for the Review of Third Party Dependencies"

'A prerequisite may be classified as "exempt" by the EMO if the software 
is pervasive in nature, expected to be already on the user's machine, 
and/or an IP review would be either impossible, impractical or inadvisable'

I imagine that an IP review for FreeRTOS software might be considered 
impractical.    The download location is here

http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-Plus/FreeRTOS_Plus_TCP/index.html

The license is in some cases GPL:

http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-Plus/FreeRTOS_Plus_TCP/FreeRTOS_Plus_TCP_License.html.

I have discussed the possibility of changing the GPL licensing with the 
author, and he was open to it.  We wouldn't distribute binaries, just 
source code, so maybe that doesn't matter.  The binaries are built by 
the user with the compiler, the IDE is Visual Studio.

By far the majority of the code for the embedded client is shared 
between the multiple environments, of which FreeRTOS is one.  A small 
amount (maybe 5%) is FreeRTOS specific.  So from one point of view, the 
FreeRTOS environment could be a works-with dependency, where as in a) ii)

"The Eclipse software is designed to work with multiple third party 
software choices that provide similar functionality - the choice of 
which is up to the user.  At least one of those must be a prerequisite..."

We provide interface layers for Linux, TI, FreeRTOS, and others in the 
future.  So, Linux (glibc and libstdc++) could be considered a 
prerequisite, and TI cc3200, FreeRTOS etc, works-with dependencies.

Ian


On 02/15/2016 05:00 AM, emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10820
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> --- Comment #4 from Genie Eclipse <genie@xxxxxxxxxxx>  2016-02-15 00:00:27 ---
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Ian Craggs
icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx                 IBM United Kingdom
Paho Project Lead; Committer on Mosquitto