Crud. Change the first "if yes" to "if no". Sorry for the confusion.
Oct 13, 2021 9:47:03 AM Triangle Embedded Interest Group <[email protected]>: > Is it the case that mixing permissive-licensed code (eg BSD,MIT) with GPL3 > licensed code can get you into legal trouble in some regions of the world? > What if the GPL code sticks to LGPL3 where you can point to the library > boundaries between that code and more permissive-licensed code also in it's > own library (but in an embedded context where static linking is the only > option)? If yes, is that nuked if your "main" module is GPL3 licensed? By > nuked I mean rendering the whole program as having to be subject to GPL3 > rules. If the above is hazardous then if all the GPL3 code involved is kept > in a public repo (or sets of repis that segregate by license type) is that > likely to satisfy EVERYBODY and render the code non-hazardous to the > maintainers of the repo(s)? I'm trying to figure out long term legal hazards > for code that will be used in arbitrary countries (eg the EU) as well as in > the US, Iran: wherever. This issue gates what off the shelf open source can > be used vs what has to be written if no OSS code with license permissivity > flavor X can be found. We could perhaps follow up on this as a November > "problem of the month" at the November 8 meeting. > Pete (IANAL) > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
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