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Re: RHEPL, GPL and modification
- From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter dot vandenabeele at mind dot be>
- To: Robert Vojta <robert at v0jta dot net>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:54:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RHEPL, GPL and modification
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- Reply-to: Peter Vandenabeele <peter dot vandenabeele at mind dot be>
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:50:03AM +0100, Robert Vojta wrote:
> Hallo,
> I'm still trying eCos and reading as many as possible articles about
> it. I have successfully running eCos on my MPC 565, nice work, thank you Bob.
> But I've another problem. Licence was RHEPL and now is "modified"
> GPL. I found this text on WWW pages ...
>
> eCos v2.0 includes a change to the licence from the RHEPL to the GPL with
> a modification that makes it more suitable for embedded systems.
>
> ... and I'm not able find the GPL modification which makes it more suitable
> for embedded systems. Can I still produce commercial application based on eCos
> and distribute it without source code or when ecos is under "modified GPL"
> I can't? What the modification exactly is?
Robert,
Please check out this thread:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2002-11/msg00406.html
Peter
> Thank you very much,
> have a nice day,
> Robert
>
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> Robert V0jta
> Linux/UNIX specialist, programmer
> http://www.v0jta.net/
> robert@v0jta.net
>
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