Lets get Ethercat into the Linuxcnc distribution. Need technical people to help

See how you go with a deb file. A 13 year old will surely know more than me.
I was going to try it but then the homing changes were made in  master...

I have a fair bit of structuring of the homing module and tidying up before its going to be ready for helpers.
And I already have Dan helping me.

I know an IP Lawyer who has done work for me so I will try to get a legal opinion on the copyright/licensing issues of the hal driver.
Maybe he will work pro bono (for free), maybe I might add some compensation into the mix.

I submitted the matter to the forum a couple of times .... and politely I was made to understand that there is no need for money .... now in fact after a long time and after seeing many linux based plc / cnc and linuxcnc ..... obviously this is all a baseless fantasy .... but for example companies like om .... om .... I am convinced that linux drivers are not the real source of income seen that in any case all start from the open ..... but they are the programming and user interfaces ..... so in conclusion I think it is everyone's gain to work on the "heart" ... drivers etc etc .... in edible way .... so that in the end the advantage does not go only to the usual big suspects, but can also be exploited by the small and not at all known ..... after all this is not the purpose of open sources ... make the software usable ?? and why instead in the last 20 years it has been done so that open sources have been exploited much more by multinationals than by small ones ????? that's why from now on I will publish everything that is not interfaces and consequent ..... if you think about it there is very little patentable in the drives and in the core ... so better spread as much as possible in order to spread the advantages as much as possible and thus limit the "subjection" of the big names. Do not you think??

In the end, isn't the ethercat we use a great example? They have limited themselves to the hardware and leave the market to third parties.

Others, on the other hand, take and then do not give ... on the contrary they oblige to give more and more ..... for this reason I have never liked version 3 of the open licenses.

However I understand that in some areas version 3 makes sense .... but in ours it is the classic weapon that backfires tio.



But these is OT .... so sorry .... only would explain my opinion on licensing and how can be licensing and why not the other.


regards
bkt

andypugh wrote:

bkt wrote:

really ubuntu lawyers moove for that?? ... seems really absurds

The actual problem was that Ubuntu's conditions changed to require that _all_ Ubuntu branding was removed from a distribution such as ours. But they wouldn't provide any guidance to which files were "branded" so it was basically impossible to comply.

Search and replace?

I want to get another machine going with linuxcnc and I'm seeing progress with jerk control, and now ethercat.

Slightly confused on the licensing stuff, but ill leave that all to you guys haha. I'll just cheer from the sidelines.