From 72adc99fbf255c64859808987a9792316c0f35c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Baccelli <emmanuelsearch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:25:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

wordsmithing around non-viral term
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 README.md | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 77d58a03fa..5546de6c20 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,10 +36,11 @@ independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers partial POSIX
 compliance).
 
 RIOT is developed by an international open source community which is
-independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community)
-and is licensed with a non-viral copyleft license (LGPLv2.1), which allows
+independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community).
+RIOT is licensed with LGPLv2.1, a copyleft license which fosters
 indirect business models around the free open-source software platform
-provided by RIOT.
+provided by RIOT, e.g. it is possible to link closed-source code with the
+LGPL code.
 
 ## FEATURES
 
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