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eCosForge is dedicated to foster the development and porting of free software for the eCos real time operating system. It offers a Subversion source code repository, mailing lists and a Wiki for projects which are licensed under a free license.
Any of the free licenses listed on the GNU license list page is accepted (also the GPL-incompatible ones), recommended are the 3-clause BSD license or the eCos 2.0 license.

eCosForge is a free service sponsored by Zylin AS.

As opposed to the main eCos cvs, where the contents are always supposed to be stable and of production quality, eCosForge.net is a place where developers can work together on not-yet-finished code. But in the end the goal should always be to move the packages to the main eCos cvs once it's stable and finished.

eCos is licensed under the GPL+exception, which makes it possible to write closed source firmware using the open source eCos. This is the reason why GPL or LGPL software is not accepted in the main eCos cvs. On eCosForge we have a dedicated "department" ecosforge/trunk/packages_gpl/ for such packages in the subversion repository.