[ECOS] Redboot in a Router

Jonathan Larmour jifl@jifvik.org
Fri Sep 23 18:40:00 GMT 2005


Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> Do you know what version of eCos/RedBoot is used in this router?
> It is possible, albeit remote, that it uses a pre-GPL licensed
> version of eCos, in which case the GPL protection above does not
> apply.

That's a good point - from the ecos-patches post I linked to I was 
inferring it was post 2.0, but of course it may not be. The RedBoot banner 
gives the version number.

Inventel must still have made the sources available to Red Hat in that 
case, but that becomes Red Hat's problem.

Jifl
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