Re: [ECOS] HD file system?

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Nick Garnett wrote:
> "Eric Verlind" <eric dot verlind at streamconcept dot be> writes:
>
> > Could you please elaborate on your statement about the license? Could we
> > take for instance the network driver for our pet Ethernet chip, which is not
> > on the list of supported devices, from Linux and use it as a starting point
> > for an eCos version?
>
> Anything from Linux is pure GPL, eCos is GPL with an exception. The
> exception allows non-GPL code to be linked directly with eCos to make
> a single executable. Pure GPL does not allow that. Importing any GPL
> code into eCos would effectively nullify the exception, reverting it
> to pure GPL. We don't want that.

To be clear... We won't accept code into the public eCos distribution. 
*You* can use GPL code with ecos though. But in that case eCos's GPL 
exception doesn't apply - everything becomes fully GPL'd, including your 
application.

Jifl
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