On Monday, February 28, 2022 8:28:36 AM EST andy pugh wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 13:22, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> 
wrote:
> > > ie, "rtapi" is relevant to uspace and rt builds.
> > 
> > Can you guide me (or someone else surfacing) towards what would be
> > required to have LinuxCNC readily compatible with that external
> > EtherCAT package on Debian?
> 
> 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 followed this link, and couldn't find an obvious link to the licensing 
docs. Am I going blind? Or are they acting like a submarine, ala the 
compuserve debacle from about 25 years back?

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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