Dear Peter Puchwein, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > So the usage of the linux-based Ethercat implementations is completely > free but Beckhoff want's to take care that EtherCAT products stay
This is not correct. OSADL had long discussions with Beckhoff about that before OSADL buried their ready to be released EtherCAT master stack. > compatible so they have their own license you sign if you use the > technology. Right, and this additional license requirements imposed by Beckhoff prevents the use of EtherCAT in a GPL based contaxt (like the Linux kernel). > With this type of license the Opensource-Community is not happy I think, > maybe of conflicts with the GPL. Indeed it it is a conflict with GPL. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Single tasking: Just Say No. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
