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Forum Topic - Questions About 'use' & Co.: (4 Items)
   
Questions About 'use' & Co.  
Just wondering, will use and the supporting utilities be released under a licence that allows porting and redistribution
 to other operating systems? Additionally, is there any QNX-specific code in that would make them difficult to port?

Thanks.
Re: Questions About 'use' & Co.  
I can't say for sure about the licensing, but I would guess that it'll be the same as the rest of the OS. 

As far as porting ease goes, the 'use'/'usemsg' source isn't terribly OS specific, but it does kind of assume that the 
executable it's working on is ELF. That means getting it to work on a system that uses ELF as it's executable format 
will be fairly straight forward. Doing it on one that does (e.g. Windows) will require much more effort.
RE: Questions About 'use' & Co.  
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyson Key [mailto:tyson.key@gmail.com] 
> Sent: October 21, 2007 3:44 PM
> To: osmeta-core_os
> Subject: Questions About 'use' & Co.
> 
> Just wondering, will use and the supporting utilities be 
> released under a licence that allows porting and 
> redistribution to other operating systems? Additionally, is 
> there any QNX-specific code in that would make them difficult to port?

As far as the licensing goes, they will continue to be licensed under
the terms of the standard QNX set of licenses that are generally use based:

http://www.qnx.com/legal/licensing/index.html

Thomas


Re: RE: Questions About 'use' & Co.  
Thanks for clearing that up. So presumably, any port can't be redistributed until the person wishing to use it signs up 
at the QNX site and reads the set of licenses?