Hosting BSP layers on oe.org?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 4 mrt 2011, om 21:30 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven:

> On 03/04/2011 10:10 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 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,
>>>> 
>>>> Koen
> 
> With my TSC hat on, I also see this as a board issue, not a TSC issue.

I reread http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/TSCCharter and it is definitely a TSC issue. So can we move forth with the discussion? The board is still unable to make any progress on this it seems.