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Subject:    [Orocos-users] using non-realtime library function calls in a realtime component
From:       geoffrey.biggs () aist ! go ! jp (Geoffrey Biggs)
Date:       2012-10-10 9:50:31
Message-ID: 5A818DF3-2CF5-4A98-B805-50FEDB5CF8BF () aist ! go ! jp
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On Oct 10, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Davide Faconti wrote:
> It is clear that there is a problem with the RTI license is this "Infrastructure \
> Community". 
> Basically those who get the code "open" can be only those institutions/companies \
> which have been approved by RTI. So, if you are not in the "club", no source code. \
> On the other hand, you can apparently distribute binaries to anyone under some \
> restrictions that I consider reasonable from a company point of view. 
> So companies might accept this license from a pragmatic point of view but academy, \
> probably, will consider this extremely limiting.

So in other words, it's basically the same as their old "R&D licence" system. I guess \
nothing has really changed, then.

Certainly, it seems a stretch to actually call it "open source."

Geoff

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