From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30385 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2007 13:51:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 30377 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2007 13:51:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (HELO wa-out-1112.google.com) (209.85.146.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:51:11 +0000 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l24so617340waf for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.148.1 with SMTP id v1mr32079wad.1188481870000; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.38.7 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a3305fe0708300651o4933b8f4w8fdf4b2e6ebf6da1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:51:00 -0000 From: "Mike Arthur" To: "Andrea Merello" Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] GPL violation ? X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00170.txt.bz2 On 8/30/07, Andrea Merello wrote: > Hi! > > It happened I found a device that I suspect uses eCos OS in firmware, > but I can't get source from the vendor site. So I suspect they are > violating GPL and would like to investigate. I have not contacted the > vendor yet directly, I'd like to know if they are really usign eCos > and if they eventually had been authorized by eCos developer before go > on.. > eCos uses GPL with an exception. For more information check out: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/license-overview.html There is a good Q&A section midway down the page. Are you trying to get their sources for the eCos HAL or their firmware application code? Mike -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss