On 25/1/19 1:04 am, Sebastian Huber wrote: > > some Xilinx drivers use this license: > > /****************************************************************************** > * > * Copyright (C) 2014 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved. > * > * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy > * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to > deal > * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights > * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell > * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is > * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: > * > * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in > * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > * > * Use of the Software is limited solely to applications: > * (a) running on a Xilinx device, or > * (b) that interact with a Xilinx device through a bus or interconnect. > * > * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR > * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, > * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL > * XILINX BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, > * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF > * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE > * SOFTWARE. > * > * Except as contained in this notice, the name of the Xilinx shall not be used > * in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in > * this Software without prior written authorization from Xilinx. > * > ******************************************************************************/ > > It is an open source license, but it is has the following limitations: > > "* Use of the Software is limited solely to applications: > * (a) running on a Xilinx device, or > * (b) that interact with a Xilinx device through a bus or interconnect." >
These conditions are not across all the code in the SDK 2018.3. I would check specific versions. For example I found these conditions in 2018.3/data/embeddedsw/lib/bsp/standalone_v6_1 and not in: 2018.3/data/embeddedsw/lib/bsp/standalone_v6_8 > This is not a big deal for driver code intended for Xilinx devices. Would it > be > acceptable for the RTEMS repository? I do not think we can have code with the conditions present in our repo. We cannot enforce this clause and we do not have or ever will have a click through with user details that lets us know who has taken the code. I am attempting to get some clarification from Xilinx on this. We have been working successfully with Xilinx in bringing about a change, it however takes time. My brief review of standalone_v6_8 code is encouraging. Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
