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Re: Are copyright assignments detrimental to eCos?


Hi, Jiri,

Jiri Gaisler <jiri@gaisler.com> wrote:

> Using LGPL does not require you ship your firmware as
> object files and link later. My understanding of LGPL
> is that you can ship proprietary core linked with LGPL
> code, without having to open-source the proprietary
> code. It is only the modifications of the LGPL code
> you must publish, which is exactly what we are after.

Please read the LGPL carefully.

You stumbled over one of the differences between the LGPL and the "GPL
with linking exception", as used by eCos or the GCC run time library,
AFAIR.


Regards,
Markus

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