Support of Basic EGPRS in OsmoPCU

historical

Thanks Harald and Daniel for your suggestions.
We will follow the steps as mentioned by you. I will send a separate mail with SSH-key details.

Regards
Saurabh

-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Welte [mailto:laforge at gnumonks.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 8:15 PM
To: Saurabh Sharan <Saurabh.Sharan at radisys.com>
Cc: osmocom-net-gprs at lists.osmocom.org
Subject: Re: Support of Basic EGPRS in OsmoPCU

Hi Saurabh,

thanks for reaching out about this.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:32:03PM +0000, Saurabh Sharan wrote:
> We would like to provide the information that since Dec-2015 we have 
> been working on adding the EGPRS support in OsmoPCU.  We have provided 
> the support for Basic EGPRS feature, details of which explained below.
>
> We would like to make the code available in Public domain

Sorry for being 'precise' here:  OsmoPCU is licensed under GNU GPL v2-or-later.  This is a copyleft-style licenses that require any modifications to be released under the same license.  That is contrary to 'public domain' (which is a specific legal construct in the anglo-american legal tradition whereby an author gives up all his rights and anyone can do whatever he wants).  While we could merge code under 'public domain' into OsmoPCU, you cannot make modifications to the GPL-licensed OsmoPCU and then put the result into public domain, sorry.

I suppose you just wanted to release it publicly and might have mixed up the terms?

In either case, please send your changes as incremental per-feature commits to this list, preferrably using git-send-email on your local git repository.

In addition, it would also be great if you could push your git repository to a public location.  If you send your SSH public key, we can provide you a repository with write access on git.osmocom.org.

> We have taken interim rebase from the master during Jan-2016.

As Jacob has been working on EDGE support since October 2015 (see the osmocom-commitlog mailing list), I fear there might be quite some overlap to your changes.  It would have been great if you had reached out before working in parallel on the same features.

So one the next step (after posting the current patches) would be to do right now would be to re-base your changes on top of current osmo-pcu.git/master.

Thanks,
	Harald
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