On 12/18/05, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:

> A year or so ago I was looking for a suitable license for 'free'
> embedded libraries. My aim was to have a license that allos all types of
> use in (embedded and other) applications, but restrict source
> distribution (of that library) to the same license. I think I found it
> in the eCos license. It is a kind of wrapper around the GPL, adding the
> freedom to freely use the source in an application. I had to modify a
> few words to remove the eCos references, and I restricted it to refer to
> GPL version 2 only (I don't know what RS will put in a next version).
> The result is below, comments are welcome.
>
> ============
>
> Embedded Free License version 1
>
> This work is free, in the sense that you can redistribute it and/or
> modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> As a special exception to the GNU General Public License version 2:
> if other works instantiate templates or use macros or inline functions
> from this work, or you compile this work and link it with other works
> to produce a resulting work based on this work, this does not by itself
> cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General Public
> License.
> However the source code for this work must still be made available in
> accordance with section (3) of the GNU General Public License,
> under this Embedded Free License.
>
> This exception does not invalidate any other reasons why a work based on
>
> this file might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
>
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> version 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software
> Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
> USA.
>
> This work 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
> version 2 for more details.
>
> This Embedded Free License is (c) Wouter van Ooijen 2005
> (wouter@voti.nl).

Why not LGPL?

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