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consititute part of the legal meaning of the license.
Q. What is the effect of the eCos license?
A. In the simplest terms, when you distribute anything containing eCos code, you must make the source code
to eCos available under the terms of the GPL.
Q. What if I make changes to eCos, or write new code based on eCos code?
A. Then you must make those changes available as well.
Q.
A. You do not have to distribute any code under the terms of the GPL other than eCos code or code derived
from eCos. For example, if you write a HAL port based on copying an existing eCos HAL in any way, you
must make the source code available with the binary. However you would not need to make available any
other code, such as the code of a wholly separate application linked with eCos.
Q. I would rather stick with the RHEPL code, but I updated my anonymous CVS checkout.
A.
last-rhepl. See
the anonymous CVS access page
Previous license
Prior to May 2002, eCos was released under the
incompatible with code licensed under the GPL. The use of eCos source code which was licensed under the
Full eCos license
in conjuction with the
GNU General Public License (GPL)
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
eCos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
eCos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with eCos; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General Public License. However the source code for this
GNU General Public License.
for details.
Red Hat eCos Public License (RHEPL)
on which it depends.
. The RHEPL required
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