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My target board have two MACs, one in MCU chip,the other is connect to MCU local bus. I like to use RL-TCPNET in my board. How to use?
A licence is a legal agreement; one really needs to check the specific legal terms - it is not sufficient to rely upon "expectations" (especially as a non-lawyer!)
"I would expect that if you licence source code you can modify it..."
Especially for such a significant modification, I wouldn't rely on such an assumption...
Dear Andy,
thank you for making clear that a licence is a legal agreement. I fully agree with you in that.
I dont know the software product TCPnet source code and I dont know its licensing details, so when I wrote "assume" I probably used a wrong word. I am sorry, i did not want to mislead.
What I meant is that it is typical to gain the legal right to make some modifications to a software product taken in licence in source code.
In general they cost a lot of money and if were not possible make changes, then there would be no reason to licence the sources.
At least, that is my experience with RTOSes, stacks, graphical libraries etc. of which I have managed the licensing.
However, should one have interest in licensing a specific software product, the best thing to to is contact the authorised dealer to clarify any detail.
Regards, Marco.
neither do I!
And that is the point: we don't know the precise terms, so we must advise the OP the he needs to discuss this specifically with Keil themselves.