More permissive license than GPL3?

[heuer]

The firmware is licensed under the GPL.

This in turn means that all programs that use the firmware also fall under the GPL3.

This is a bit unfortunate in my opinion.

A firmware under a license like the LGPL would solve the problem in my opinion. I.e. it would be ensured that the firmware has a copyleft license and programs that use the firmware could choose a different license.

At least that is my understanding of the LGPL, I am not a lawyer. ;)

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Linking_and_derived_works

[yet-another-fuzzi]

Changed to MIT

[heuer]

https://github.com/elektrofuzzis/ftSwarm/blob/master/arduino-cpp-library/LICENSE still states GPL 3

[Bloeckchengrafik]

Changed