One could argue we are already in breach of their license by mentioning Ethercat in our Debian package :) There is no point suggesting something without being willing to contribute. Therefore I am happy to be an admin contact using the email ether...@vmn.com.au There are others who are more competent than I with the technical stuff.
Sascha Ittner and Dominik Braun whose work on github I referenced spring to mind Also Arvid Brodin who is in this group knows a bit I think but is working on trajectory planning Michel Winja (Grotius) is also very knowledgeable I will see if I can attract their attention. Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61 435 765 611 Vehicle Modifications Network www.vehiclemods.net.au On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 00:48, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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 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? > > Best, > Steffen > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
