Re: [riot-devel] CAN license question

2018-07-28 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 28, 2018, at 13:12, Gunar Schorcht wrote: > > In this case, should no CAN device driver be available to prevent > license violation by RIOT users? We are not the patent police. Having the software in a repository is not practicing any invention that may be under patent protection. How

[riot-devel] CAN license question

2018-07-28 Thread Gunar Schorcht
Hello, RIOT defines a low-level CAN device driver interface. Suppose the MCU (for example, Espressifs ESP32) provides a CAN hardware implementation that could be used to integrate CAN peripherals into RIOT if there were a low-level CAN device driver for it. So I thought about including such a low