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- Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:25 pm
- Forum: Open Discussion about the Commercial Options
- Topic: GPL and proprietary 3rd party library
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Re: GPL and proprietary 3rd party library
GPL for my own code isn't a hard requirement, it was just an obvious choice because of ChibiOS. But AFAIU, the GPL only limits distribution and not use, so I think it should be ok to release my code under the GPL - the code itself doesn't include anything proprietary, only the resulting binary. This ...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:47 am
- Forum: Open Discussion about the Commercial Options
- Topic: GPL and proprietary 3rd party library
- Replies: 5
- Views: 41227
Re: GPL and proprietary 3rd party library
Thanks for the quick reply!
The library in question is BSEC , its license is here . It doesn't seem to explicitly allow distributing binary copies without hardware containing the sensor, but IANAL so maybe that's implied if the binary is intended to be used with such hardware. Forbidding ...
The library in question is BSEC , its license is here . It doesn't seem to explicitly allow distributing binary copies without hardware containing the sensor, but IANAL so maybe that's implied if the binary is intended to be used with such hardware. Forbidding ...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:43 am
- Forum: Open Discussion about the Commercial Options
- Topic: GPL and proprietary 3rd party library
- Replies: 5
- Views: 41227
GPL and proprietary 3rd party library
Hi,
I'm using ChibiOS for an educational project, with the intent to release both hardware and software under free licenses - GPLv3 and some (yet undecided) open hardware license. I don't intend to distribute physical hardware in any way, but all you need to build your own device will be freely ...
I'm using ChibiOS for an educational project, with the intent to release both hardware and software under free licenses - GPLv3 and some (yet undecided) open hardware license. I don't intend to distribute physical hardware in any way, but all you need to build your own device will be freely ...