[Tinyos-devel] Re: [Tinyos Core WG] Re: non-TEP code

[Philip Levis]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Aurélien Francillon wrote:

> Le mardi 30 janvier 2007 09:55, Philip Levis a écrit :
>> On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Joe Polastre wrote:
> ...
>>
>>> What about LGPL?
>>
>> That's pretty clearly a no. If you compile together, then the viral
>> takes over. In theory, someone could develop LGPL libraries for
>> binary components, but given how common binary components are maybe
>> it's better to leave this edge case until it comes up.
>>
>
> What about gpl with classpath exception, it would fit quite well  
> for tinyos:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html

The issue is that "linking" refers to binary code. Since nesC brings  
all code together as text before compiling it, it isn't helped by  
these distinctions.

Phil