Alternative License for Parts of MTD?

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 16:15 +0200, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I work with the real-time operating system RTEMS (http://www.rtems.com).  The 
> license of this system is GPL with an exception that allows static linking 
> without restrictions:
> 
> http://www.rtems.com/license/LICENSE
> 
> This is very similar to the eCos license:
> 
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html
> 
> RTEMS has currently no framework for flash devices.  It would be nice if we can 
> use parts of the MTD system, e.g. the header files and device independent 
> support routines like "drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c".  Is it possible to 
> release parts of the MTD code under the RTEMS or eCos license, or would you 
> categorically refuse this?

Irrespectively of what random people in the mailing list think, this is
a question to layers. And I guess you'd need to have permission of all
copyright holders, which I guess all people who contributed, and this is
practically impossible to do. But I do not know for sure whether this is
correct or not :-)

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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