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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] License question: xenomai is LGPL but GPL in
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To: "M. Koehrer" <mathias_koehrer@domain.hid>
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M. Koehrer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a copyright question concerning Xenomai:
> As far as I understand it, Xenomai in user space is licensed under the LGPL
> which means that I may link any commercial application against it.
> My question is now: 
> Even in a user space application I have to include some xenomai headers
> like <native/task.h>
> When I look into native/task.h I see there the GPL copyright statement and not
> the LGLP.
> My question is now:
> When I include the Xenomai headers in a user space application, does my
> user space application fall automatically under the GPL or is it still possible
> to build a commercial application?
> 
> I am not a lawyer, however sometime I think each software developer should be a lawyer..

Look at include/COPYING: there is an exception for headers.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix