1.4. License
1.4.1. EC-Master license
According to EC-Master Software License Agreement (SLA).
1.4.2. Free Open Source Software contained in EC-Master
1.4.2.1. Expat XML parser license V2.6.0
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd
Copyright (c) 2000 Clark Cooper <coopercc@users.sourceforge.net>
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@users.sourceforge.net>
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Greg Stein <gstein@users.sourceforge.net>
Copyright (c) 2002-2016 Karl Waclawek <karl@waclawek.net>
Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>
Copyright (c) 2016 Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
Copyright (c) 2016 Thomas Beutlich <tc@tbeu.de>
Copyright (c) 2017 Rhodri James <rhodri@wildebeest.org.uk>
Copyright (c) 2022 Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl>
Copyright (c) 2023 Hanno Böck <hanno@gentoo.org>
Copyright (c) 2023 Sony Corporation / Snild Dolkow <snild@sony.com>
Licensed under the MIT license:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit
persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN
NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
1.4.3. Free Open Source Software supported by EC-Master
The following components are not part of EC-Master, but relate to it:
1.4.3.1. acontis atemsys Linux kernel module
The acontis atemsys is licensed under the GPL:
Copyright (c) 2009 - 2020 acontis technologies GmbH, Ravensburg, Germany
All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
1.5. Versioning
EC-Master follows the following versioning scheme: VMAJOR. MINOR. SERVICEPACK. BUILD (e.g. V3.2.1.04).
The libraries are binary compatible by unchanged MAJOR and MINOR digits. If SERVICEPACK increments, BUILD restarts with 01. BUILD 99 is reserved for test builds that have not been officially released for productive usage.