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license issue
- From: majo huber <majo dot huber at gmail dot com>
- To: newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 10:03:08 +0100
- Subject: license issue
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Hi@all,
I just had a look at the licenses of newlib. As far as I understand newlib
is mainly for use in embedded systems, even for commercial use. Therefore
the licenses are mostly of BSD style. I noticed, that the file sys/select.h
is under the cygwin license.
The copyright/license part states:
"This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the Cygwin
license. Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for details."
I think this is the file in subdirectory winsup. But this license is
unusable for me since it is a LGPLv3+ license. So simply newlib is unusable
for me in versions since 2015 (the date the file came in). You might argue
that this shouldn't be a problem, since LGPL section 3 states that small
header incorporations are allowed. Anyway I think that mixing licenses in
such a way is extremly dangerous for embedded system designers.
So I wanted to ask if this could be changed (source code or license)?
Thanks in advance.
majo