Hosting BSP layers on oe.org?

[Koen Kooi]

CC: ing the board, although I know Philip is playing in the snow next week.

Op 4 mrt 2011, om 17:36 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:

> On 3/4/11 10:30 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this a pure TSC issue, but really like your input on this.
>> <TI hat on> I would like to host the TI BSP layer(s) on oe.org as well as the
>> mailinglist(s) and patchwork config(s) to encourage the wider community to
>> participate. My question is "Do we want that" and if so, "Do we want to
>> encourage it?". <TI hat off>
>> 
>> It would be really nice if we can get people (e.g. silicon vendors, OEM,
>> community developers) to do their OE stuff in the open and host them on
>> oe.org. What's your opinion on this?
> 
> Speaking for my involvement in Yocto for a small bit.  This was one of the
> things that we had planned early to enable in Yocto.  We were not sure that
> purely open source groups such as OE would allow for BSP layers to be hosted
> from their site or not.  (Especially when you factor in many BSPs require
> proprietary drivers of some type to be fully functional...)
> 
> <back to my TSC role>  I would certainly encourage BSP layers under the umbrella
> of Open Embedded.  But I have a feeling this is one of the questions we need to
> ask the board about.  They're the ones that are going to give us guidance on
> what rules (proprietary or not) as well as if they think it's appropriate. -- if
> they do, we can certainly help guide this within OE.
> 
>> regards,
>> 
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