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Re: HD file system?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- To: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: Eric Verlind <eric dot verlind at streamconcept dot be>,ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 16:48:22 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] HD file system?
- References: <001e01c2df65$cfaa9870$010a0a0a@bardolino> <m37kbkngxo.fsf@balti.calivar.com> <000901c2df85$c478f120$010a0a0a@bardolino> <m33cm7nzag.fsf@balti.calivar.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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