Den 2022-02-28 kl. 15:47, skrev Steffen Möller:
Hello again,
On 28.02.22 14:28, andy pugh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 13:22, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de>
wrote:
Personally I know nothing about EtherCAT. I have always been a little
afraid of the licensing complexities mentioned here:
https://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/
Etherlab itself is GPLv2, but _using_ it seems to bring a different
licensing restriction into play. And I don't know enough about
licensing to know if that's a problem.
I called them up - first the Beckhoff group (they have nice stuff on
https://www.beckhoff.com/en-gb/) and from there I was pointed to the
EtherCAT Technology Group (https://www.ethercat.org/de/contact.html),
so I called them, too. Without that membership we would be in said
uncharacterized unmitigated license trouble
Already have a simple implementation of an Ethercat driver with
hardcoded configuration but read something about the license problem and
have kept it for myself.
that Andy referenced but with that membership they would be very
sweet to us. From what I understand, they try to be good people and
just in case someone messes something up they do not want to guess how
to reach out. So we are asked to become a member of the EtherCAT
Technology Group (ETG) - for which we would identify someone who would
serve as a communicator between them and our community and write a
"3-line email" with our request to integrate an EtherCAT driver that
is available at some URL with LinuxCNC as described on
https://linuxcnc.org.
I do not see that Debian would become a member of their Technology
Group. And it would not make too much sense to me to have any extra
outreach from Debian to that ETG, but we can ask for an OK to have
that distribution channel and also ask for Fedora at the same time.
Now - big question: Is there an agreement that it would be beneficial
for LinuxCNC to become a member of the ETG? It is free. And there
likely a series of perks for training material that may not be of our
immediate concern. They invited me to help with that initial contact
but that LinuxCNC-representative to them could then be anyone we pick.
Andy? Rod? You both? Jeff? All three of yours?
I could volunteer.
Nicklas SB Karlsson
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