A Dilluns, 27 de maig de 2013, Anders Blomdell va escriure: > On 2013-05-26 09:00, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Dear Leopold Palomo Avellaneda, > > > > In message <201305260224.59809....@alaxarxa.net> you wrote: > >> > >> My recommendation is that if you don't want to make a commercial product, or > >> sell your software, you can use any of the two ethercat master: soem and > >> etherlab. I don't think that Beckhoff makes you problems. If you want to do any > >> commercial product, ask to Beckoff first. > > > > The license terms make no such difference. As soon as you distribute > > any such system (no matter if commercial or otherwise, even for free) > > you are violating the terms. > > > > It's even worse than that, you are not even allowed to use it internally > without signing the EtherCAT license. At 2007 when ethercat.org was > still stating that EtherCAT was GPL compatible/friendly, we wrote an > EtherCAT master in realtime Java ([1], [2]). After having completed that > when we were about to release it to the world, we were told by Beckhoff > that in order to distribute or use it (even internal use!), we had to > sign the Beckhoff license (hence that project was scrapped!). The GPL > wording was also removed from the EtherCAT site at this time (the whole > process of triyng to get the licensing right took almost two year, after > this time we finally got an answer from Gerd Hoppe [3]). >
this is sad ... in ethercat.org theres a point in the FAQ: from there: http://www.ethercat.org/en/faq.html#790 -------------------------------------------------------- 3.4 How about Open Source? EtherCAT technology itself is not Open Source. Backed by the standardization of EtherCAT by IEC, ISO and SEMI, access to EtherCAT technology is available to everyone to non-discriminatory terms. Additionally, Master Licenses are free of royalties. Maintenance and all further development of the technology is available to all users by membership within the ETG, the user group for EtherCAT technology. If you have questions regarding implementing or using EtherCAT in conjunction with shared source or open source systems please contact ETG headquarters or Beckhoff, the EtherCAT technology licensor. -------------------------------------------------------- I have asked, so when I got the answer I will inform. regards, Leopold -- -- Linux User 152692 Catalonia _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list Xenomai@xenomai.org http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai