Re: [ECOS] ecos license question.

[Peter Vandenabeele <peter dot vandenabeele at mind dot be>]

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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