Re: [ECOS] RHEPL, GPL and modification

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>]

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:54, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> 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

Also, if you look at any of the source files from the current CVS
tree you'll see the text of the GPL license along with a description
of the exception and other licensing possibilities.

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