Hello,
CAN drivers exist in Linux too, so I don't think there is any issue
with patent or license regarding CAN software.
In my opinion the licensing takes place at hardware level, so the chip
manufacturer is responsible for that, though IANAL.
Regards,
Vincent
Le samedi 28 juillet 2018 à 13:1
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
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
