Re: Yet another license: Cygnus eCos Public License

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl writes:

   Cygnus announced a new OS for embedded systems, under yet another license,
   the Cygnus eCos Public License
   (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/license.html), based on the NPL.

   Can someone please go over it, and determine if it is DFSG-free, and if so,
   whether it's better or worse than the NPL from Debian's viewpoint (e.g.
   mixing with (L)GPLed code)?

It appears to me that the eCos license is DFSG free.  I'm not sure
whether it can be linked with (L)GPL'd code, though.