>>And the whole licensing thing irritates me. I agree.. I find it as appealing as filling out tax forms.
Dave On 10/24/2013 5:05 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 October 2013 02:38, Yishin Li <y...@araisrobo.com> wrote: > >> The license stated from IgH EtherCAT Master for Linux : >> All the source code available through IgH is licensed under the GPLv2 >> license. >> http://www.etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php > The Etherlab EtherCAT Master does appear to be a normal GPL project. > > I think that the difficulty is that the _use_ of the EtherCAT standard > is governed by an additional license: > http://ethercatmaster.berlios.de/files/EtherCAT_Master_License_Agreement.pdf > > This might actually mean that we are free to ship a HAL driver that > links to the (GPL) Etherlab EtherCAT master, but that any users > linking their system to actual EtherCAT hardware would become liable > to the license above. > > Is this any different to the situation of linking, via EtherNET, to a > Windows PC from a Linux PC? > > There is an (old) thread on the subject here: > http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermail/etherlab-users/2008/000243.html > > IANAL. And the whole licensing thing irritates me. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
