Community Stack Licensing Clarification

sbsprofi
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Joined: 28 May 2025, 17:46

Community Stack Licensing Clarification

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I want to ensure that my intended use of the Profinet Community Stack is allowed under the Community Stack License. I understand it as allowing my company (a PI member company) to use and adapt the code within the Community Stack to create a Profinet adaptation layer for our hardware, then use that adaptation layer in our final product. I also understand this to be royalty-free. I am using the example from the community stack's 1.0 release, whose files are licensed under the community stack license, as a base for the adaption for our embedded Linux system.


Our intent is to use the community stack to implement Profinet on our industrial device product, then certify that product through a Profinet Test Center, and then sell that product to our customers. As I understand the license, this entire process should be royalty free with no associated fees for the use of the Profinet Community Stack.


Note that our product is a Profinet Device, not a Profinet Controller.


Is my understanding correct?