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It's a nice present from Amazon. They should keep doing this, I'd like a MIT licensed QNX next please. God knows they have the money.
by revelation 9y ago
It's a nice present from Amazon. They should keep doing this, I'd like a MIT licensed QNX next please. God knows they have the money.
- JoshTriplett 9y agoGPL would be fine too; I'd just like something that actually qualifies as FOSS, rather than something proprietary.
- apple4ever 9y agoGPL is also a non-FOSS license. It says it is, but its not. Can't wait until the GPL is a rarely used license.
- JoshTriplett 9y agoIt meets the Free Software definition, the OSD, and the DFSG. And even anti-copyleft zealots rarely descend as far as to attempt to claim (falsely) that it isn't a FOSS license, rather than simply complaining that they find it distasteful.
- finnn 9y agoWould you care to elaborate on what you believe makes the GPL a non-FOSS license?
- bri3d 9y agoIt definitely limits the freedom of both the author and user, by restricting the means in which the software may be distributed and the limiting author's right to add additional restrictions (the "all distributions must adhere to these restrictions but can't add more" clause which makes it incompatible with the Apple App Store, for example). It's "Free" in the Free Software Foundation sense but not really in the way some people think of "freedom."
- fgonzag 9y agoIt limits the freedom of the author yes. It severely expands the freedom of the user. That is the whole point of the license, any user has the code available to modify, inspect, or audit himself. I don't see how you think that it limits the freedom of the user too.
- Avamander 9y agoI think you don't know what GPL is intended for. It's to give the USER the four basic freedoms, not the dev, not the author, the user.
- pjmlp 9y agoWe will be back to the world of public domain and freeware. Everything will have a light version open source, with the actual goodies only available in the commercial version.
- qznc 9y agoUntil then we have the actual goodies only available in the cloud. ;)
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoBaseline FreeRTOS was "GPL" but it had a silly clause prohibiting you from publishing benchmarks.
- hoodoof 9y agoYeah but the important question is what about the future investment into these projects? Is there any, or is it just a throwaway thing that Amazon does?
- technion 9y agoI tried to research your statement and landed here[0]. I'm somewhat shocked at how many different competing active RTOS's there actually are. There amount of reinventing the wheel must be huge. I mean I know the wikipedia page on Operating Systems lists a lot more.. but the majority of them are long dead. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operat...
- jcelerier 9y agoTo be fair, a loop spinning and some malloc / free functions in a library are enough to call something a RTOS.