From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23526 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2004 14:13:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23518 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 14:13:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aapie.schuilenburg.org) (213.78.72.132) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 14:13:26 -0000 Received: from ecoscentric.com (simply.schuilenburg.org [172.31.12.3]) by aapie.schuilenburg.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0QEDLSx018463; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:13:23 GMT Message-ID: <401520E3.6060404@ecoscentric.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:13:00 -0000 From: Alex Schuilenburg Organization: eCosCentric Limited User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Graf CC: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <74E8FB46-4E89-11D8-8B34-000A959B4468@xtix.de> <40142D39.2040004@ecoscentric.com> <4014D878.7090903@itknet.de> In-Reply-To: <4014D878.7090903@itknet.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ECOS] Support for Motorola MCF5282 X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00238.txt.bz2 Peter Graf wrote: > Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > >> Michael Christmann wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I would like to use eCos with a Motorola MCF5282. >>> >>> Is there someone who has experience with the MCF5282 (or MCF5272) and >>> eCos? >>> >>> (When I read >>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2003-08/msg00286.html it >>> sounds like there is only a commercial version which is usable - is >>> this true?) >> >> Yes, this is true. > > Just out of curiosity, not as criticism: How does that correspond to the > license? I presume CPU support is part of eCos itself, so everyone could > ask for the sources for no more than the copying charge. Or are these > ports directly from the eCos copyright holders, using a second license > for eCosPro? If so, what is the eCosPro license? eCosPro is made up of a number of different components that are released under different licenses: * eCos 2.0 license (GPL+exception) * Modified BSD license * eCosPro license * Eclipse license This means that if you are a recipient of a binary using eCos or eCosPro, you are entitled to ask for the eCos sources that are licensed under the eCos 2.0 license only. In practice this means the eCos kernel and components as well as any platform or processor HAL components that were derived from other components which were released under the eCos 2.0 license. For the other portions of eCosPro (i.e. the sources which are licensed under a modified BSD license or the eCosPro license) there are no requirements to provide the source code of these components to recipients of any binaries. This will include clean-room eCos HALs and device drivers as well as other proprietary *additions* (e.g. custom device drivers such as SPI and MMC device drivers, code coverage analysis support, Eclipse/CDT plug-ins, etc). For the eCosPro sources which fall under the eCos 2.0 license, these are made available on a per request basis by eCosCentric. The eCosPro license simply allows you to distribute eCosPro binaries without license fees or royalties but prohibits you from distributing the eCosPro-licensed sources outside your organisation (without prior written consent from eCosCentric). When you purchase eCosPro, the eCosPro license is obviously included. -- Alex > >> eCosPro is available for both the MCF5272 and MCF5282 and were both >> done from scratch. The contributed MCF5272 port in anoncvs is very >> broken (with no 5282 support either). > > > All the best > Peter > > -- Managing Director / CEO eCosCentric Limited http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss