Red Hat, Inc. announced that it would assign all of its copyrights in the eCos open source operating system to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Red Hat scored a win for eCos on Monday by announcing a partnership with Delphi to provide the OS for Delphi's Mobile Productivity Centers. The MPC provides hands-free use of PDA's and an interface to cell phones in automobiles. While eCos is most definitely not Linux, the deal is a big advance for Open Source technologies in the embedded space, said Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann.

Download the source to eCos from here.

Cygnus developed eCos to provide an open, standard infrastructure for embedded developers worldwide. eCos provides a common run-time software environment that can be configured from source code to meet most application-specific requirements. eCos is available as an open source product.