Re: info on Open Robot Controller CAD : ORCCAD

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Eric Rutten wrote:

[... about Orccad licenses and complementarity to Orocos...]
> on the one hand, the  scope in Orocos is the constitution of open source
> libraries to write implementations of control laws. On the other hand,
> Orccad is a tool that can construct applications by assembling
> (importing) components from these libraries, and encapsulating them into
> a discrete-event driven controller. Orccad then generates an executable
> code, to be linked and compiled with the libraries.

You realize that you cannot link closed source stuff to GPL libraries?
This is not the case with LGPL, but not all source in Orocos will be
LGPL, I think.

[...]
> > Maybe a starting initiative for cooperation could be to brainstorm
> > extensively about the design and implementation issues of ORCCAD? This
> > would benefit both Orocos and ORCCAD, although we would require a
> > fresh and independent implementation...
>
> A completely new implementation would be quite ambitious ... or maybe
> just parts of it?
> Maybe it would be more pragmatic to consider the generated code (rather
> than the code of the Orccad tool itslef), its structure and its
> integrability to the Orocos framework?
>
Well, I think you can assess this much better than myself, because I
don't have a clear view on how exactly ORCCAD works :-)

Herman

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