From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: Paul Beskeen <paulb@cygnus.co.uk>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Licensing terms
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991029144650.A2476@visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <086501bf2245$e4486220$2f2782c2@cygnus.co.uk>
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 08:43:35PM +0100, Paul Beskeen wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> > 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).
>
> Talk about FUD. You have read the CEPL correctly - I can confirm that there
> are absolutely no license fees or royalties associated with shipping a
> product containing eCos.
The guy's a putz. Since knowing the competition is basic to sales, he
is either incompetent or dishonest. Probably both.
> FUD #2. I think he is probably referring to Helios and is again incorrect.
> Although Cygnus employs engineers that have worked on the Helios OS in former
> lives(tm), eCos is a completely new development designed and developed from
> scratch.
That's what I thought.
Thanks.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-29 11:45 Grant Edwards
1999-10-29 12:25 ` Mark Galassi
1999-10-29 12:42 ` Paul Beskeen
1999-10-29 12:46 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
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