[ECOS] Re: What should I concern when using eCos in commercial products?

wangcui iucgnaw@msn.com
Fri Jan 25 04:11:00 GMT 2008


Thank you, Grant.
Do I must register our product to eCos community, or something else?
My boss just want to make sure of every legal stuff about eCos. :)


> To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> From: grante@visi.com
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:54:37 +0000
> Subject: [ECOS] Re: What should I concern when using eCos in commercial products?
>
> On 2008-01-25, wangcui  wrote:
>
>> After long time of evaluation of eCos, I'm totally attracted
>> by it and the community. I'd like to use it in our new
>> products, but I wander is it absolutely royalty free?
>
> Yup. Absolutely.
>
>> Anything should be concerned?
>
> Here's one guy's opinions...
>
> 1) It can be used under Windows+Cygwin, but it's less work and
> more reliable under Linux. Even if you're not an
> experienced Linux user, in the long run you'll probably
> spend less time installing and learning to use Linux that
> you will spend wrestling with Cygwin and Windows
> problems.[1]
>
> 2) Don't depend on the GUI configurator. Learn the basics of
> CDL and how to use the command-line admin/config tools.
> That too will pay many benefits in the long run.
>
> eCos is, at the core, a shell-script, makefile, command-line,
> unix-centric development environment. Embrace that rather than
> fight it, and life will be easier.
>
>
> [1] Don't think I'm trying to dis Cygwin. It's an amazing piece
> of work, and I still find it hard to beleive that it works
> as well as it does. But it's trying to do something very,
> very difficult (make Windows act "sanely" from a Unix point
> of view).
>
>
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