COPYING -- Describes the terms under which Nuttx is distributed. A copy of the BSD-style licensing is included in this file. In my words -- I believe that you should free to use NuttX in any environment, private, private, commercial, open, closed, etc. provided only that you repect the modest copyright notices as described in license (below). Please feel free to contact me if you have any licensing concerns. NuttX ^^^^^^ License for NuttX in general (authorship of individual files may vary): /************************************************************************* * * Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Gregory Nutt. All rights reserved. * Author: Gregory Nutt * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. 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The following was extracted from the entry "File Allocation Table from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "On December 3, 2003 Microsoft announced it would be offering licenses for use of its FAT specification and 'associated intellectual property', at the cost of a US$0.25 royalty per unit sold, with a $250,000 maximum royalty per license agreement. o "U.S. Patent 5,745,902 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=5745902) - Method and system for accessing a file using file names having different file name formats. ... o "U.S. Patent 5,579,517 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=5579517) - Common name space for long and short filenames. ... o "U.S. Patent 5,758,352 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=5758352) - Common name space for long and short filenames. ... o "U.S. Patent 6,286,013 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6286013) - Method and system for providing a common name space for long and short file names in an operating system. ... "Many technical commentators have concluded that these patents only cover FAT implementations that include support for long filenames, and that removable solid state media and consumer devices only using short names would be unaffected. ..." So you have been forewarned: Use the long filename at your own risk! uIP ^^^ Many lower-level networking components of NuttX derive from uIP which has a similar BSD style license: Copyright (c) 2001-2003, Adam Dunkels. All rights reserved. IGMP ^^^^ IGMP support, if enabled in uIP, adds additional logic by Steve Reynolds: Copyright (c) 2002 CITEL Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. The HID Parser in drivers/usbhost ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Adapted from the LUFA Library (MIT license): Copyright 2011 Dean Camera (dean [at] fourwalledcubicle [dot] com) dean [at] fourwalledcubicle [dot] com, www.lufa-lib.org Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that the copyright notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of the author not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. The author disclaim all warranties with regard to this software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software. Certain functions in the NuttX C-library derive from other BSD-compatible sources: fs/nfs: ^^^^^^^ NFS: Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. and RPC also has: Copyright (c) 2004 The Regents of the University of Michigan. Copyright (c) 2004 Weston Andros Adamson . Copyright (c) 2004 Marius Aamodt Eriksen . The University of Michigan uses a modified BSD license equivalent to the NuttX license. The University of California code uses the original BSD license and requires that I state the following: "This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors." strtod(): ^^^^^^^^ Copyright (C) 2002 Michael Ringgaard. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2006-2007 H. Peter Anvin. dtoa(): ^^^^^^ If you enable floating point conversions with CONFIG_LIBC_FLOATINGPOINT, then some files with an unmodified BSD license will be included. That license is similar to the above (modified) BSD license, but has an additional requirement that I state the following: "This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors." 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