On 02/01/2011 07:13 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> I can understand if you are building non-free software you would not >> want to use gnulib due to license reasons, but you could still use >> autoconf. > Somewhat oversimplified, this applies to us. > > RTEMS is an OS for embedded systems and is licensed under a "GPL with > exceptions for static linkage". > We choose to do so, because to users RTEMS presents itself as a set of > static libraries, they statically link their application code against. > > As we do not want to force our users to release their code, "pure > GPL'ed" code is not applicable to us.
The gnulib stdbool module is LGPLv2+, which is about as flexible as you can be. Using gnulib's stdbool replacement does NOT require an application to become GPL. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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