[ECOS] ecos license question.
Peter Vandenabeele
peter.vandenabeele@mind.be
Wed Jan 15 18:25:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> jake smith wrote:
> > We are developing a commercial product using eCos (x86
> > platform). We have made the following changes to the
> > eCos .
> > 1. We have Modified eCos serial driver for BREAK
> > support.
> > 2. Added custom keypad driver package to the eCos. No
> > eCos files are modified.
> >
> > Do we need to make our product Open Source ?
> >
> > We have also used redboot IDE source code in the
> > application software.
> >
> > Do we need to release full or part of the
> > application code ?
>
> I will assume you are using sources downloaded since May last year. The
> answer is yes. All code derived from eCos code in full or part (even if
> only copying bits from a single eCos file) must be either delivered to
> your customers with the binaries you created (including if the binaries
> are delivered on a device), or put up publically to any third party for
> three years (and your customers informed that it's there).
>
> The only code you can keep to yourself are files containing no eCos code
> in part or full.
>
> Of course we'd be interested in seeing your changes here anyway in case
> they are useful enough to include, and if they are we appreciate it if you
> could contribute them so you can give back a little of what you got from
> eCos :-).
>
> We have actually updated the licence summary on the web site to explain
> all this just today:
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html> (if it says eCos
> is under the RHEPL then the old versions's probably been cached somewhere
> so use shift-reload/ctrl-refresh to update it)
Jonathan,
Thanks for updating that.
- you might mention the fact that the specific eCos 2.0 license is considered
a GPL-compatible, Free SW license, as described on the page on the FSF site
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html)
- :s/licence/license/ ?
Peter
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