EtherCAT Slave Stack Code License 1.1 2/8
to use the EtherCAT Slave Stack Code for developing, testing, selling or
otherwise distributing own Products incorporating EtherCAT Technol-
ogy
to modify and/or embed the Slave Stack Code in your Product without
limitations set forth in Section 5 a) and 5 b) of the License,
1.2 Your Products shall, at the time those are supplied to each individual of your customer
or otherwise distributed by you, be compatible with the latest version of the pertinent
EtherCAT Technology at that time pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 below.
1.3 Licensor and its Licensors shall exclusively own all intellectual property or proprietary
rights in and pertaining to the EtherCAT Technology including, but not limited to, inven-
tions, patents, patent applications and disclosures, copyrights, mask work rights, trade
secrets, moral rights, confidential or otherwise proprietary information and know-how
which have been, or will be, acquired or otherwise secured by a party, recognized in
any country or jurisdiction in the world. Other than the limited license granted to you
pursuant to this License, you shall not acquire any rights in or pertaining to the EtherCAT
Technology.
2. Royalties
The EtherCAT Slave Stack Code License is royalty free.
3. Conformance Test Procedure
3.1 All Products shall undergo tests according to the then current Conformance Test Policy
issued from time to time by the EtherCAT Technology Group to ensure that those Prod-
ucts are compatible with the latest version of the EtherCAT Technology. These tests
shall be completed with a positive result (“compatible”) before any of the Products may
be sold, delivered or otherwise distributed to your customers.
3.2 In case a modification of the EtherCAT Technology results in a Product which was com-
patible with the pre-existing version of the EtherCAT Technology to be incompatible
after the modification, you shall within twelve (12) months from the date the Product
became incompatible modify such Product and adapt it to the latest version of the Ether-
CAT Technology. After such modified Product has passed the Conformance Test pur-
suant to Section 3.1 with a positive result, you shall have the right to sell, deliver or
otherwise distribute this Product to your customers and any sale and delivery of the
incompatible Product during the twelve (12) months period shall be deemed permitted.
3.3 Notwithstanding to the limitations set forth in Sections 3.1 and 3.2, you shall have the
right to continue to supply Existing Customers with Products containing the version of
the EtherCAT Technology they initially received.
4. Trademark License
4.1 You acknowledge that Beckhoff Automation GmbH is the sole proprietary owner of the
Trademarks and Licensor is licensee of such rights and entitled to sublicense the Trade-
marks. Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of this License, Licen-
sor hereby grants to you under the Intellectual Property Rights a non-transferable,
worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the Trademarks for marketing and