Library License Selection - roybaer/sdcc-wiki GitHub Wiki
The final decision, based on the Voting Table, is to release the sdcc library under the GPL+LE licence. See the SDCC library source file license header.
SDCC's libraries are licensed under a number of different licenses including the GPL and LGPL. This page contains information about a planned unification and simplification of all SDCC libraries with a consistent license.
I've done my best to summarize the key features of each license in an unbiased way. If I've made a mistake, please correct the error.
- GPL+LE - GPL plus Library (or Runtime) Exception
- Strong copyleft.
- Addresses problems with GPL and LGPL use in embedded projects.
- Allows development of proprietary software.
- MPL - Mozilla Public License
- Incompatible with GPL. Dual GPL licensing would be required to support GPL software development.
- Weak copyleft. Copyleft only applies to original source files.
- Allows development of proprietary software.
- Code from libraries may be directly copied into proprietary software without restriction.
- BSD - BSD 3 Clause License
- No copyleft.
- Code from libraries may be directly copied into proprietary software without restriction.
- Copyright notice must be supplied with any software.
- X11 MIT
- No copyleft.
- Code from libraries may be directly copied into proprietary software without restriction.
Please select all acceptable licenses next to your name.
| Developer | Perferred License | ||||||
| User name | Full name | GPL LE | MPL | BSD | MIT | Don't Care | No Change |
| anoncvs_rymo | |||||||
| bela | Bela Torok | ok | |||||
| bernhardheld | Bernhard Held | ok | no | maybe | no | ||
| borutr | Borut Razem | ok | no | maybe | rather not | ||
| drdani | Daniel Drotos | ok | no | maybe | ok | ||
| epetrich | Erik Petrich | ok | no | ok | no | ||
| frief | Frieder Ferlemann | ok | no | maybe | maybe | ||
| hjdorn | Hans Dorn | ||||||
| jbess | Jerome Bessiere | ||||||
| jesusc | Jesus Calvino-Fraga | ok | no | ok | no | ||
| johanknol | Johan Knol | ok | |||||
| jtvolpe | John Volpe | ||||||
| karahalios | Alex Karahalios | ||||||
| kbongers | Karl Bongers | ok | |||||
| kflittner | Klaus Flittner | ||||||
| kmh | Klaus Martin Hennemann | ||||||
| kvigor | Kevin Vigor | ok | no | ok | no | ||
| maartenbrock | Maarten Brock | ok | rather not | ok | ok | ||
| mhelmling | Martin Helmling | ||||||
| michaelh | Michael Hope | ok | no | maybe | no | ||
| mschmitt | Michael Schmitt | ok | no | no | no | ||
| pjs | Paul Stoffregen | ok | maybe | no | no | ||
| sandeep | Sandeep Dutta | ok | |||||
| sdattalo | Scott Dattalo | ok | no | no | no | ||
| sdcc-builder | |||||||
| skenton | Stephen M. Kenton | ||||||
| slade_rich | Slade Rich | ok | |||||
| stevewilliams | Stephen Williams | ok | no | maybe | maybe | ||
| tecodev | Raphael Neider | ok | rather not | ok | ok | ||
| uid21261 | |||||||
| vav | Anton Voloshin | ||||||
| vrokas | Vangelis Rokas | ok | no | maybe | no | ||
| wiml | Wim Lewis | ||||||
| Dmitri S. Obukhov | ok | ||||||
| spth | Philipp Klaus Krause | ok | no | ||||
| Jean-Louis Vern | ok | ||||||
| Josef Wolf | ok | ||||||
| Martijn van Balen | ok | ||||||
| peter_townson | Peter Townson | ok | |||||
| Lucas Loizaga | ok | ||||||
| Juan Gonzalez | ok | ||||||
| Bjorn Bringert | ok | ||||||
| Weston Schmidt | ok | no | maybe | maybe | |||
| Bernd Bartmann | ok | ||||||
| Krzysztof Polomka | ok | no | ok | ok | |||
| Ben Boeckel | ok | rather not | ok | ok | |||
| sjborley | Steven Borley | ok | no | maybe | no | ||
| Pravin Angolkar | |||||||
| Philippe Latu | ok | ||||||
| simonsunnyboy | Matthias Arndt | ok | no | maybe | definitly no | ||
| Omar Espinosa | |||||||
| Gudjon I. Gudjonsson | ok | ||||||
| Kyle Guinn | ok | no | maybe | no | |||
| GHJ Morsink | ok | ||||||
| Llewellyn van Zyl | ok | ||||||
| drift_solutions | Indy Sams | ok | no | ok | ok | ||
| Zik Saleeba | ok | no | ok | ok | |||
| George Gallant | ok | ||||||
| Robert Lacoste | ok | ||||||
| inexistent user | |
| virtual user | |
| conributed code to SDCC Runtime Library |
Source: libstdc++ library source (available from source control web interface at http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/src/c%2B%2B98/compatibility.cc?revision=143913&view=markup)
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