Re: [cdt-dev] Native plug-ins

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

On 2015-03-16, 2:55 PM, "Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On 16/03/2015 10:57 AM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
>> One of the topics discussed at EclipseCon was the native plug-ins,
>> I.e. the ones that do the Spawner, PTY, Windows Registry, and now
>> Serial Port. There is more interest in using this functionality
>> outside the scope of the CDT. In fact, I¹ve received a couple of
>> requests to use it outside of Eclipse, especially the Serial Port.
>>
>> I¹ll be taking a look at this in the upcoming weeks. One part of this,
>> to make them more mobile in case we want to push it down the stack,
>> I¹d like to move it into it¹s own repo. At the very least we need a
>> separate build since things like org.eclipse.remote will need to
>> depend on it which creates a circular build dependency.
>
>Doug,
>
>As discussed at EclipseCon: With respect to Serial Port specifically, we
>may want to consider dual-licensing the code EPL+EDL(BSD). That would
>ensure that the component could be consumed in GPL licensed projects. I
>suspect that a well-written, well-maintained, and liberally licensed
>replacement for RXTX would be of great interest.

Yes, I am still considering how that would work. The Serial Port
functionality depends on the Windows Registry code we have. And if we go
there, I would think the rest of the native functionality may be of
interest in the same way.

I guess the issue then is changing the license of the existing code which
would require approval from all the copyright holders, which may be tricky
as some of this is really old code.

Some of that may be mitigated by using JNA which I hear has been approved
for use in the Platform. We could then separate this stuff out into
separate plug-ins more easily and then license them differently.

Need to think about that a bit more.

Thanks!
Doug.

>
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