From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rikers.org ([166.70.15.250] helo=localhost) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17nAzU-0005h5-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:45:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3D78306A.38DB8612@Rikers.org> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 22:34:50 -0600 From: Tim Riker MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lixi_avansys , uclibc@uclibc.org CC: linux Subject: Re: GPL ,LGPL ,and our application References: <001801c2532b$fda0d3f0$e8023f0a@l23009> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is the wrong list for this question. I've copied the uClibc list on my reply that would be a better place to ask. As noted in the COPYING.LIB: http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/uClibc/COPYING.LIB?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup uClibc is under the LGPL which states: 5. A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or linked with it, is called a "work that uses the Library". Such a work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls outside the scope of this License. So your application can link to uClibc and not be required to be open source. This would not be true if the GPL license was used, but is true under the LGPL. lixi_avansys wrote: > > hello, > > we want to make a product using Coldfire5272 with uclinux, but we meet a license problem. > > according to GPL/LGPL we need to open our application source code if the application program are static linked with uc-libc. > > I want to know how to avoid to open application source code , otherwise the others can clone our product without any problem . Some other company using uclinux in their product may face same problem before so I want to know how them handle this? > > thanks a lot! > > windstone > ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿòâ?ìLL7b±Ë¬²*'?¨¥Sx%SËa¶Úÿÿùb²ÛÿSwëi×swú+fùsSYsYùb²Ø§~?åS{±þk] -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - TimR@Debian.org Lineo CTO - Tim@Lineo.com - http://www.Lineo.com/ BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun!