[ECOS] Re: ecos license question.

[ECOS] Re: ecos license question.

[Jonathan Larmour]

> We are developing a commercial product using eCos (x86
> platform). We have made the following changes to the
> eCos .
> 1. We have Modified eCos serial driver for BREAK
> support. 
> 2. Added custom keypad driver package to the eCos. No
> eCos files are modified.  
>  
>     Do we need to make our product Open Source ? 
> 
> We have also used redboot IDE source code in the
> application software. 
> 
>     Do we need to release full or part of the
> application code ?

http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/license-overview.html has the best summary. 
  You are only obliged to release the eCos (and RedBoot) source code - you 
can either do it directly to the people you are giving the binaries to *as 
long as you put it alongside the binaries*, or you can make it available 
to all. Read the overview :-).

BTW, there is already break support in the serial driver, it's just the 
API isn't well documented :-|. See 
devs/serial/generic/16x5x/current/src/ser_16x5x.c and search for 
CYGNUM_SERIAL_STATUS_BREAK. How did you do it?

Jifl
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