Well its alot of GPL opensoftware that is funded but still released under the rules of GPL. Just take OpenSSL for example - that is funded by microsoft, ibm, debian foundation, redhat foundation - and several others. Its still open source and still follows the GPL rules.
If Tormach is releasing Pathpilot as a GPL they are supposed to share the code in a public repository as well. And are under that licesing allowed to take payment for installation help, suppot, configuration support and so on. Even if they have funded it, its not theirs, its public domain once its released under GPL.. Thats the foundation of open software. And atm, they are not following that licensing properly. ( i had a long thread going regarding this a while back and did some research into it) // Andreas sam sokolik skrev den 2015-05-20 00:51: > Not quite true... Tormach funded the new trajectory planner which was > pushed back into linuxcnc prime. > > Just today... > > Daniel Rogge 2.7 d861045 linuxcnc src/emc/tp/tp.c Trajectory planner: > pausing during G95 fix * > http://git.linuxcnc.org/?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d861045 > > sam > > > > On 05/19/2015 05:20 PM, Andrew wrote: >> 2015-05-19 21:15 GMT+03:00 Marcus Bowman < >> marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk>: >> >>> On 19 May 2015, at 14:47, Andrew wrote: >>> >>>> I'm afraid PathPilot "just works" only with Tormach machines. Others >>>> require usual LinuxCNC setup procedure, editing configs etc. >>> But if the config files are changed to suit the machine, will it still not >>> work? >>> What is preventing it from working? Is this a hardware issue? >>> >>> PathPilot is derived from LinuxCNC, it uses Mesa 5i25. It should work on >> any machine. But the config should be modified (just like a LinuxCNC >> config). >> Then "works for non-guru" feature consists of configs made specifically for >> Tormach machines, their new fancy interface, Fanuc style toolchanger and >> some tool database. >> >> As I see it, Tormach forked LinuxCNC >> https://www.mail-archive.com/emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13335.html >> But they share no source code... OK, the PathPilot interface is >> proprietary, but other source code of the fork should be available? That's >> how GPL works, right? >> >> -- >> Andrew >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
