Re: [d@DCC] Interpretting the ECos License

From: dugg _-at-_ golden.net
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Cc: Jeremy McNicoll <jeremy -_at_- mcnicoll.ca>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 09:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
References: <005e01c35948$dd597290$4142a8c0@mrzipup>

The FSF itself says that the eCos license is GPL compatible, but has the 
same disadvantages as the LGPL. See:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html


Quoting Jeremy McNicoll <jeremy@mcnicoll.ca>:

> I am working on a project I have some code I want to use that is under
> the ECos
> 
(http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/user-guide/ecos-licensing.ht
> ml) license.  But my code that I will be adding to a project that is
> currently under GPL.  The way that I interpret the ECos license is
> that
> it is a more strict form of the GPL.   Do people agree?  Or could you
> say that this is GPL compatible?  Trying to force the GPL on used
> code.


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