Am 15.09.2022 um 01:26 schrieb andy pugh:
On Wed, 14 Sept 2022 at 23:37, Rod Webster<r...@vehiclemods.net.au> wrote:
As an aside, there is no mention of Beckhoff copyright on the new
etherlabmaster repohttps://gitlab.com/etherlab.org/ethercat and shows as
100% open source so I think it would satisfy the debian masters. T
That seems like it could be very important. Is there any suggestion
that Beckhoff have changed stance (it would be in their interest to do
so) or is this one-sided from etherlab?
If the latter, are they omitting to mention, or do they have new
information or a new legal interpretation?
I would love to see EtherCAT fully integrated into our releases, but
the Beckhoff license was weird.
I think it is still a bit weird. Just randomly checked out
https://gitlab.com/etherlab.org/ethercat/-/blob/master/master/datagram.c
and this reads - below the GPL-blurb:
* The license mentioned above concerns the source code only. Using the
* EtherCAT technology and brand is only permitted in compliance with the
* industrial property and similar rights of Beckhoff Automation GmbH.
This is self-contradicting, I tend to think. Not to use the brand name is
already difficult enough, but not using the technology?
Best,
Steffen
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