From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards To: ecos Subject: [ECOS] Licensing terms Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <19991029134519.A27124@visi.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-10/msg00121.html I just got off the phone with somebody from Express Logic (the vendor of ThreadX), and he claimed that if you want to ship product with eCOS you have to pay money to Cygnus. I've read the eCOS license and it sure doesn't look like that's the case to me (standard I Am Not a Lawyer Disclaimer applies). He also told me that eCOS is a revised version of another, older OS called Helos (or something like that). I've never heard either of these claims before. The claim about being "free for development but you have to pay when you ship product" sounds like the VRTXoc license from Mentor. I asked him if that was what he was talking about, and he hadn't heard of that devlopment. I don't know where the "Helos" business came from. Anybody else here anything like that. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com