RTEMS license issue in case of integrating commercial S/W.

[Sebastian Huber]

On 16/09/14 07:05, Thomas Kim wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> As I know from http://www.rtems.org/license/LICENSE, RTEMS's primary RTEMS
> license type is GPLv2.

It is not a pure GPLv2+ license.  It is a GPLv2+ with an exception for static 
linking:

"RTEMS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under terms 
of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; 
either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. RTEMS is distributed 
in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the 
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See 
the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a 
copy of the GNU General Public License along with RTEMS; see file COPYING. If 
not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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."


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