Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> This link seems to confirm the Etherlab invocation is GPLv2 so you may be > right! > https://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php > > Rod Webster > +61 435 765 611 > Vehicle Modifications Network > www.vehiclemods.net.au It already is publically available so if I make my contributions available I

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Rod Webster
This link seems to confirm the Etherlab invocation is GPLv2 so you may be right! https://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php Rod Webster +61 435 765 611 Vehicle Modifications Network www.vehiclemods.net.au On 23 January 2018 at 11:06, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 22 January 2018 15:14:34 Rod

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 January 2018 15:14:34 Rod Webster wrote: > Hi, > > Its been a long time but many years ago when working with Ghostscript > and commercial interfaces to it. The solution was (under their > license) to build an interface to the external library in such a way > if the external library/DL

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Rod Webster
Hi, Its been a long time but many years ago when working with Ghostscript and commercial interfaces to it. The solution was (under their license) to build an interface to the external library in such a way if the external library/DLL wasn't there the software did not fail and if another library wi

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:38:43 +1300 Darren Conway wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone considered asking Bekhoff for their view on this issue? As is now I use LAN9252, maybe that will not get them in the right mood. Anybody with an Beckhoff device? ---

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Darren Conway
Hi Has anyone considered asking Bekhoff for their view on this issue? They might grant a GPL compatible license for LinuxCNC. Regards Darren Conway On 23.01.18 8:27 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: On 22 Jan 2018, at 21:08, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: In source code I got from soem there is GNU license

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:27:50 +0200 Andy Pugh wrote: > > > > On 22 Jan 2018, at 21:08, Nicklas Karlsson > > wrote: > > > > In source code I got from soem there is GNU license but somewhere I also > > found an exception, below so I am a little bit confused. > > I have always been confused by

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Andy Pugh
> On 22 Jan 2018, at 21:08, Nicklas Karlsson > wrote: > > In source code I got from soem there is GNU license but somewhere I also > found an exception, below so I am a little bit confused. I have always been confused by this too. The worry is that if we distribute anything EtherCAT with L

Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver

2018-01-22 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:32:58 +0200 andy pugh wrote: > On 13 January 2018 at 15:06, Nicklas Karlsson > wrote: > > > > > I checked out via git, how do I procede if I want to commit via git? > > > You would push it to your own repository on github, then press the > pull-request button on the Lin