Report from EtherCAT workshop

Submitted by Fabrizio on Tue, 2011-02-08 18:44

Hi All,
I'm just came back from the Beckhoff workshop...

I asked to Martin Rostan about the license and he said that is the same
of CAN...

The idea is that who write a Master have to sign or a license without
pay any fee.
On the other hands who want to share the code have to sign another kind
of license and put,
on head of shared source, some notes that inform who want to change
that must write the license too.

All of this is to assure that no one steal the EtherCAT protocol.

Now I'm very interested about the management of EtherCAT on Orocos
becouse I'm thinking to buy some new
slave boards to control our FRHC joystick...

Greatings!
Fabrizio Boriero

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Report from EtherCAT workshop

Submitted by bruyninc on Tue, 2011-02-08 19:08.

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Fabrizio wrote:

> I'm just came back from the Beckhoff workshop...
>
> I asked to Martin Rostan about the license and he said that is the same
> of CAN...
>
> The idea is that who write a Master have to sign or a license without
> pay any fee.
> On the other hands who want to share the code have to sign another kind
> of license and put,
> on head of shared source, some notes that inform who want to change
> that must write the license too.
>
> All of this is to assure that no one steal the EtherCAT protocol.

Thanks for the information!

> Now I'm very interested about the management of EtherCAT on Orocos
> becouse I'm thinking to buy some new slave boards to control our FRHC
> joystick...

In accordance to what you write yourself earlier in this email, the burden
of EtherCat licensing is with the _user_, not the provider... (K.U.Leuven
got a license for itself, some months ago. )

> Greatings!
> Fabrizio Boriero

Herman

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