CanFestival focuses on providing an ANSI-C platform independent CANOpen® stack that can be built as master or slave nodes on PCs, Real-time IPCs, and Microcontrollers.

Runtime code is licensed LGPLv2, whereas accompanying developer tools are licensed GPLv2.

CanFestival was made free in 2001, and grow since thank to user community source code contributions.

This moderated mailing list is the main community communication channel.