FW: Question about MontaVista Licence Managemen t of gcc (Is this legal?)

["Serge Croteau" <scroteau at classeaudio dot com>]

Hi,

We are using the MontaVista release of gcc. ?We had a 30 days license from MontaVista for their DevRocket development platform.

We had a big surprise when the license expired. ?Gcc stopped working from the command line and displayed a message stating the license time expired.

I had a talk about this with Andrew at the OLS in Ottawa and he said I should contact you about this so you know this is happening.

Below is the Compiler output.

BstRgds,

Serge Croteau


croteau@classew020 /cygdrive/e/projects/BW/project/CPU/Projects/workspace/TestK
ernelAlsa
$ make zImage
? CHK???? include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `include/asm-arm/mach-types.h' is up to date.
? CHK???? include/linux/utsrelease.h
? HOSTCC? scripts/basic/fixdep
? HOSTCC? scripts/basic/docproc
? CC????? arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s
error:? Error: a valid MontaVista license key could not be found.
?
?The license files (or license server system network addresses)
?attempted are listed below.? Use LM_LICENSE_FILE to use a different
?license file, or contact MontaVista license support at
?
?license_help@mvista.com for assistance.
?
For information about license keys and the GPL, visit:
?
?The license manager error is:
?
Feature has expired.
Feature:?????? MV_GCC
Expire date:?? 31-may-2008
License path:? E:\Documents and Settings\scroteau\.flexnet-mvista
FLEXnet Licensing error:-10,32
For further information, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide,
available at "www.macrovision.com".
?
Your host ID(s) are: "0011d8033e68 0080c8f76129 005056c00001 005056c00008"
arm_v6_vfp_le-gcc: mvl-license: non-zero exit status
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
?
scroteau@classew020 /cygdrive/e/projects/BW/project/CPU/Projects/workspace/TestK
ernelAlsa
$

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