On 24 October 2013 19:55, John Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that these restrictions mean that neither the LinuxCNC project > nor anyone else may distribute EtherCAT drivers in source code form or > otherwise, since with EtherCAT drivers, the software would essentially > become an 'EtherCAT device' subject to Beckhoff's licensing requirements.
Does it matter that the HAL driver in question is not itself an EtherCAT master, but simply a glue layer between HAL and a third-party EtherCAT Master? (An inexact analogy would be a GPL filter to save a document in Microsoft Word format) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
