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Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2008 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > Matej Haulik wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am looking for opensource C libraries for ARM.Things like TCP/IP > > > stack, FAT12/16/32, RTOS, .... > > > Do you know some? Do you have some experience with these? Is there some > > > good source for this kind of stuff? > > > > They're part of a runtime library called "linux". That library also > > includes a demonstration program called a "kernel". :) > > > > But Linux is Free Software, not open source. > > Linux is licensed software, just like the Windows operating system is > licensed software. The license attached to Linux is an Open Source > license, specifically a slightly modified GPL version 2, which must be > abided by if you wish to keep using the software. It is not a "do as > you see fit anything goes" license. Of course. > Therefore, Linux is NOT free software. It is Open Source software. How do you come to this conclusion? The Free Software Foundation invented the GPL specifically to promote their idea of Free Software long before the term Open Source was coined. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Of course GPL software also happens to fit into the Open Source definition. http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd http://www.opensource.org/licenses So Linux is both Free Software and Open Source (and Copylefted). It's a personal matter which of both terms you prefer. -- Andreas Micklei IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin, Germany http://www.ivistar.de Handelsregister: Berlin Charlottenburg HRB 75173 Umsatzsteuer-ID: DE207795030 Vorstand: Dipl.-Inform. Heiko Schüler Aufsichtsrat: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm FAQ: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/faq.php Etiquette: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/etiquette.php
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