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Re: Licensing terms


On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 08:43:35PM +0100, Paul Beskeen wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> 
> > I just got off the phone with somebody from Express Logic (the vendor
> > of ThreadX), and he claimed that if you want to ship product with eCOS
> > you have to pay money to Cygnus.  I've read the eCOS license and it
> > sure doesn't look like that's the case to me (standard I Am Not a
> > Lawyer Disclaimer applies).
> 
> Talk about FUD. You have read the CEPL correctly - I can confirm that there
> are absolutely no license fees or royalties associated with shipping a
> product containing eCos. 

The guy's a putz.  Since knowing the competition is basic to sales, he
is either incompetent or dishonest.  Probably both.

> FUD #2. I think he is probably referring to Helios and is again incorrect.
> Although Cygnus employs engineers that have worked on the Helios OS in former
> lives(tm), eCos is a completely new development designed and developed from
> scratch.

That's what I thought.

Thanks.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com




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