User's Guide
Appendix B
Software Licenses
The firmware used in this product is partly bound to the following
licenses. To obtain the source code for the components which are
bound to these licenses, please contact the manufacturer:
Senceive Limited
Phone: +44 (0) 207 731 8269
Email: support@senceive.com
Web: http://www.senceive.com
B.1 FreeRTOS
The FreeRTOS.org source code is licensed by the *modified* GNU General Public License (GPL), text provided below. A
special exception to the GPL is included to allow you to distribute a combined work that includes FreeRTOS without being
obliged to provide the source code for any proprietary components. See the licensing section of http://www.FreeRTOS.org
for full details. The exception text is also included at the bottom of this file.
The FreeRTOS download also includes demo application source code, some of which is provided by third parties
AND IS LICENSED SEPARATELY FROM FREERTOS.
For the avoidance of any doubt refer to the comment included at the top of each source and header file for license
and copyright information.
This is a list of files for which Real Time Engineers Ltd are not the copyright owner and are NOT COVERED BY THE
GPL.
1) Various header files provided by silicon manufacturers and tool vendors that define processor specific memory
addresses and utility macros. Permission has been granted by the various copyright holders for these files to be included
in the FreeRTOS download. Users must ensure license conditions are adhered to for any use other than compilation of the
FreeRTOS demo applications.
2) The uIP TCP/IP stack the copyright of which is held by Adam Dunkels. Users must ensure the open source license
conditions stated at the top of each uIP source file is understood and adhered to.
3) The lwIP TCP/IP stack the copyright of which is held by the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Users must
ensure the open source license conditions stated at the top of each lwIP source file is understood and adhered to.
4) Various peripheral driver source files and binaries provided by silicon manufacturers and tool vendors. Permission
has been granted by the various copyright holders for these files to be included in the FreeRTOS download. Users must
ensure license conditions are adhered to for any use other than compilation of the FreeRTOS demo applications.
5) The files contained within FreeRTOS\Demo\WizNET_DEMO_TERN_186\tern_code, which are slightly modified
versions of code provided by and copyright to Tern Inc.
Errors and omissions should be reported to Richard Barry, contact details for whom can be obtained from http://www.FreeRTOS.org.
The GPL license text follows.
A special exception to the GPL is included to allow you to distribute a combined work that includes FreeRTOS without
being obliged to provide the source code for any proprietary components. See the licensing section of http://www.FreeRTOS.org
for full details. The exception text is also included at the bottom of this file.
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the
GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software–to make sure the
software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation’s software
and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered
by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.
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