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Re: Project ideas for graduate course
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Klaas Gadeyne <klaas dot gadeyne at fmtc dot be>
- Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>, ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:30:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Project ideas for graduate course
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> Even _without_ all the license issues that would be a good thing.
> However, when we first implemented EML, the EtherCAT people were still
> working on conformance testing.
Is that now finished? Is it time for version 0.2 of the code with
extra conformance testing?
> Also note that the extra clause is an agreement between Beckhoff and
> the licensee (and FMTC has nothing to do with that agreement), that
> "protects" the licensee from patent claims covering the EtherCAT
> technology.
Maybe GPLv3 is the solution. That includes patent protection as far as
i understand.
Andrew
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