Re: license issue

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Feb  2 10:03, majo huber wrote:
> 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)?

The file was originally a part of Cygwin and I didn't notice the license
header when moving the file to newlib.  LGPL is right, but I just pushed
a patch to remove the copyright header to clarify.

Please note: Even with this copyright notice, there's *no* problem to
use the header in your project since Red Hat is the sole copyright
holder of this file and the intended use of the file was to be used
in newlib under the Red Hat BSD license.  The missing removal of the
copyright notice was just that: an accident.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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