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Re: Porting for ecos - is GPL SW applicable?
- To: Dmitry Ryzhkov <rdim_outside at softhome dot net>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Porting for ecos - is GPL SW applicable?
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:38:49 +0200
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <01102601070500.01328@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:07:05AM +0200, Dmitry Ryzhkov wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> May be somebody can tell a few words about legal aspects of porting
> already existing GPL SW for its using under eCos?
>
> I would like to use ecos as OS platform but I need to operate with
> FAT-formatted PCMCIA flash memory cards (mass storage class). FAT is not
> supported by ecos. Terefore there is a sense to port FAT fs to ecos using,
> for example, Linux kernel as source.
One way around this problem maybe to see if you can use the OpenBSD,
FreeBSD, NetBSD,... implementation which uses some other
license. Generally the *BSD licenses are more flexible and compatible
with the RHPL. Thats why the TCP/IP stack is from NetBSD.
Andrew