[s1mp3-dev] loadram -- USB subroutine upload program

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606151815070.18194 at sprite.student.utwente.nl>
            Jeroen Domburg <jeroen at sprite.student.utwente.nl> writes:
: 
: Hi,
: 
: I'd rather keep it at GPL, LGPL is a bit icky with the whole linking 
: stuff. If anyone would like to get another kind of licensing, they can 
: always contact me, tho'.
: 
: Ow, while we're at the complete licensing stuff: What about we license 
: SWAN under the (L)GPL instead of a BSD-license? That way, Actions can't 
: just copy our code and make a profit out of it, which, considering the 
: help they gave us, I see as a Bad Thing.

We've had a long discussion about licesnsing, and there are bad parts
of the GPL as well.  Let's *NOT* get sidetracked on a religious
jihad.  We've had enough distractions to getting going.

Warner

: Jeroen.
: 
: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Wladston Viana F Filho wrote:
: 
: > WOW!!!
: >
: > Jeroen, CONGRATULATIONS :)
: >
: > This sounds like a great step on the development efforts. But - could you
: > change the licensing to LGPL instead of GPL ? Using GPL would make
: > everything that uses your part of the code become GPL too...
: >
: > Also, any documentation on how the magic works, for we to make a nice wiki
: > page about it ?
: >
: > Once more, very well done, man! :)
: >
: > On 6/15/06, Jeroen Domburg <jeroen at sprite.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
: >> 
: >> Hi all,
: >> 
: >> After digging deep in the s1fwx source, various usb dumps etc, I proudly
: >> present you: loadram v0.1.
: >> 
: >> What does this program do? Very simple: You connect your mp3 player to
: >> your USB port (in fw update mode, for now), enter 'loadram myprog.bin' and
: >> the data in 'myprog.bin' is executed. The program data is executed as a
: >> subroutine: executing a 'ret' returns to the firmware update mode
: >> instantly, which is great for small testing programs to figure out how the
: >> hardware works.
: >> 
: >> For now, the program only runs under Linux, but porting it to Windows
: >> should be a breeze: just copy the device.c file from s1fwx and compile,
: >> and it _should_ run without too much errors. I don't have Visual C and I
: >> don't like Windows, so the porting will have to be done by someone else
: >> more knowledged in that area.
: >> 
: >> Anyway, it's downloadable at
: >> http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects/s1mp3/loadram-0.1.tgz ,
: >> and it includes 2 test programs which write a pattern to the LCD.
: >> 
: >> Jeroen
: >> 
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: >
: >
: >
: > -- 
: > Wladston Viana Ferreira Filho
: > Belo Horizonte - MG, Brasil
: > Visit the project: s1mp3.org
: >
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