From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 9:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from michp758.redstone.army.mil (emh2.redstone.army.mil [136.205.10.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F79B37B403; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com) Received: from OARcorp.com ([136.205.65.139] (may be forged)) by michp758.redstone.army.mil (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA22145; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:20:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3B321E25.7F149BC8@OARcorp.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:17:41 -0500 From: Joel Sherrill Reply-To: joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com Organization: OAR Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Wes Peters , James Housley , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: real time References: <3AF30CF8.FC28EDA1@thehousleys.net> <3AF5D1BF.93588882@softweyr.com> <3B31F2AD.E2850728@OARcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Joel Sherrill writes: > > RTEMS is not pure-GPL -- it does allow binary redistribution. > > So does "pure GPL", as long as you make the sources available. If you > mean that you can redistribute (potentially modified) RTEMS binaries > without providing the source code, then you've effectively got a > {BSD,MIT,Apache} license (except for a few details about attributions > and the naming of derivative software), and you might as well make the > change in name as well as in function. Let me just quote the exception. We are focused on the impact of the RTEMS license on the end user embedded application. "As a special exception, including RTEMS header files in a file, instantiating RTEMS generics or templates, or linking other files with RTEMS objects to produce an executable application, does not by itself cause the resulting executable application to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Public License." This exception is similar to that used by libgcc and gnat. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org -- Joel Sherrill, Ph.D. Director of Research & Development joel@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (256) 722-9985 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message