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For the record:

I would like my contributions  to Jim Tcl to be under a FreeBSD license too=
.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, =D8yvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com> =
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently the maintainer of Jim Tcl trying as best as I can
> to fill Salvatore's shoes.
>
> Short story:
>
> If you have contributed to Jim Tcl, please reply to this email
> that you agree that we can switch Jim Tcl to a FreeBSD license.
>
> Once I have a record of all contributors agreeing to switch
> to a FreeBSD license, I'll update CVS.
>
> Long story:
>
> The current Jim Tcl license has a problem with GPL. If you
> link GPL code and Jim Tcl, the result is no license at all.
>
> This prevents Jim Tcl from being used in GPL projects.
>
> Lately Jim Tcl has been used with OpenOCD, a GPL project,
> and the license issue must be resolved one way or another.
>
> Upon conferring with Jonathan Larmour <jifl@ecoscentric.com>, who
> has kindly helped out with his knowledge on the topic, I have
> concluded that the best way to rectify this is to change the
> Jim Tcl license to a FreeBSD license. See OpenOCD mailing
> list for a discussion on this if you want details.
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#FreeBSD
>
> As far as I can determine, below is the complete list of contributors.
>
>
> antirez - Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez@gmail.com>
> patthoyts - ?? Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sf.net>
> oharboe - =D8yvind Harboe - soyvind.harboe@zylin.com
> chi - ??
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Duane Ellis <openocd@duaneellis.com>
> Uwe Klein <uklein@klein-messgeraete.de>
> Clemens Hintze ml-jim@qiao.in-berlin.de
>
> Please let me know if any of the emails below are wrong(chi is
> missing) or the list is not complete.
>
>
> --
> =D8yvind Harboe
> http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html
> ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex
> JTAG debugger and flash programmer
>



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=D8yvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html
ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex
JTAG debugger and flash programmer