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<div><span></span>Hi,</div><div>There is a project using rtems as a real time os in an arm cortex R5 bsp. <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">Primary RTEMS License says that </span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5;">RTEMS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under terms of the GPL.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">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 GPL.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">I draw a picture to describe this special exception:</span></div><div><img src="cid:_Foxmail.1@e6da9a98-632c-1338-71dc-e7700341c093" border="0"></div><div>There are "rtems src", "rtems header" and our "application". The "rtems src" will be compiled to a lib called "rtems lib". If our "application" includes "rtems header" and linkes with "rtems lib", then our "application" does not follow GPL.</div><div><br></div><div>OK, here is my question: we modify some code in "rtems src" and build it to "rtems lib2". <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; background-color: window;"> If our "application" includes "rtems header" and linkes with "rtems lib2", whether or not our "application" should follow GPL? </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 1.5; background-color: window;">(of course, rtems src2 should follow GPL)</span></div><div><img src="cid:_Foxmail.1@ef0c6ac7-1537-9b2e-ad82-ee23589eccad" border="0"></div>
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