[ECOS] Porting for ecos - is GPL SW applicable?

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:07:05AM +0200, Dmitry Ryzhkov wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> May be somebody can tell a few words about legal aspects of porting 
> already existing GPL SW for its using under eCos?
> 
> I would like to use ecos as OS platform but I need to operate with 
> FAT-formatted PCMCIA flash memory cards (mass storage class). FAT is not 
> supported by ecos. Terefore there is a sense to port FAT fs to ecos using, 
> for example, Linux kernel as source.

One way around this problem maybe to see if you can use the OpenBSD,
FreeBSD, NetBSD,... implementation which uses some other
license. Generally the *BSD licenses are more flexible and compatible
with the RHPL. Thats why the TCP/IP stack is from NetBSD.

     Andrew