> > Do you realise that code released under GPL or LGPL is
> almost useless
> > for commercial embedded use? We had a long discussion about
> this on the
> > jallist.
> > Wouter van Ooijen
>
> Other than being hard to enforce in embedded products I see
> no problem,
> unless you are someone who doesn't like the spirit of GPL.

GPL requires that you provide the sources of code you link with the
GPL-ed code. LGPL relaxes this to excempt dynamically linked stuff. For
embedded things this means that if you use GPL-ed code (in a product
that you sell or give away) you are obliged to provide the source. In
most cases this is not something you want to do, but even if you want to
do it: imagine a customer buying a valentine card with a uC that plays
some lovely tune. If the uC code contains GPLed code that customer must
get the source to it, and a copy of the GPL/LGPL text.

Wouter van Ooijen

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