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Hello Richard,

thanks for the feedback.

On 04/13/2012 04:44 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 13.04.2012 16:15, schrieb Sebastian Huber:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I work with the real-time operating system RTEMS (http://www.rtems.com).
>> The license of this system is GPL with an exception that allows static
>> linking without restrictions:
>>
>> http://www.rtems.com/license/LICENSE
>>
>> This is very similar to the eCos license:
>>
>> http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html
>>
>
> I'd contact a lawyer.
> Anyway, your GPL-with-an-exception license looks more like LGPL...

Please have a look at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2002-05/msg00206.html

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