[Avr-libc-corelib] Reuse of Procyon

[Joe Pardue]

I've tried off and on for over a year to get in touch with Pascal Stang and though I'm used to being ignored, I'm thinking maybe something else is going on with him relating to Procyon. I assume from some of the comments that other folks have had similar difficulties?

 

So my question is: how much of the Procyon library can we reuse as is without getting anybody too excited? Do we have to go entirely clean-room? If not where would we draw the line at copy and pasting the code? It seems silly to rewrite things if the code is truly abandoned, but then again it seems kind of like theft of IP if he is still around and pops up a year down the road to protest.

 

It seems silly to reinvent the wheel when that code could be a good starting base for the avr-libc-corelib, but I don't know what the ethics of this would be.

 

Personally, I'd be happy to copy and paste the whole thing with a disclaimer at the beginning, but I'm sure the GPL vs BSD license folks wouldn't be happy, so is there a guideline on what constitutes 'appropriate reuse' and when that phrase just means 'stealing'?

 

Joe