diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 860f3884798..79ebbeac361 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -1,29 +1,47 @@ -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 respect the modest -copyright notices as described in license (below), respect Trademarks, and -include a copy of the BSD license. Please feel free to contact me if you -have any licensing concerns. +COPYING +======= -Copyright Date Notation: Copyright information is provided in the header -of each file. This copyright information includes the name of the copyright -holder and the year(s) in which copyrighted additions to the file were made -to the file. A comma (',') is used to separate years in the list of years. -A hyphen ('-') is used as a more compact notation when additions were made -over several consecutive years. So for example, "2007, 2011" would mean -that copyrighted additions were made during the years of 2007 and 2011 -whereas "2007-2011" would indicate copyrighted additions in the years 2007, -2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. +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 respect the modest copyright +notices as described in license (below), respect Trademarks, and include a +copy of the BSD license. Please feel free to contact me if you have any +icensing concerns. -Copyright Line Continuation: Copy information which exceeds the usable line -lengh may be broken and continued on the following line, such as: +Tool Licenses +------------- + +Tools under the nuttx/tools directory are not intended for binary +distribution. You may find other licensing on individual tools in that +directory. If you intend to redistribute these tools in binary form, please +respect the individual license of each tool as identified in the file header +of the tool source files. + +Copyright Date Notation +----------------------- + +Copyright information is provided in the header of each file. This +copyright information includes the name of the copyright holder and the +year(s) in which copyrighted additions to the file were made to the file. +A comma (',') is used to separate years in the list of years. A hyphen ('-') +is used as a more compact notation when additions were made over several +consecutive years. So for example, "2007, 2011" would mean that copyrighted +additions were made during the years of 2007 and 2011 whereas "2007-2011" +would indicate copyrighted additions in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, +and 2011. + +Copyright Line Continuation +--------------------------- + +Copy information which exceeds the usable line lengh may be broken and +continued on the following line, such as: Copyright (C) 2007-2010, 2012, 2014-2015, 2017 Gregory Nutt. All rights reserved. NuttX -^^^^^ +===== License for NuttX in general (authorship and copyright dates on individual files will vary): @@ -64,7 +82,7 @@ files will vary): ****************************************************************************/ FAT Long File Names -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +=================== NOTE: If CONFIG_FAT_LFN is defined in your NuttX configuration file, then there may be some legal, patent issues. The following was extracted from @@ -99,7 +117,7 @@ FAT Long File Names 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: @@ -108,7 +126,7 @@ has a similar BSD style license: All rights reserved. IGMP -^^^^ +=== IGMP support, if enabled, adds additional logic by Steve Reynolds: @@ -116,7 +134,7 @@ IGMP support, if enabled, adds additional logic by Steve Reynolds: All rights reserved. The HID Parser in drivers/usbhost -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +================================= Adapted from the LUFA Library (MIT license): @@ -144,8 +162,8 @@ The HID Parser in drivers/usbhost Certain functions in the NuttX C-library derive from other BSD-compatible sources: -fs/nfs: -^^^^^^^ +fs/nfs +====== NFS: @@ -166,7 +184,7 @@ fs/nfs: California, Berkeley and its contributors." fs/spiffs -^^^^^^^^^ +========= The MIT License (MIT) @@ -189,14 +207,14 @@ fs/spiffs 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. -strtod(): -^^^^^^^^ +strtod() +======== Copyright (C) 2002 Michael Ringgaard. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2006-2007 H. Peter Anvin. -dtoa(): -^^^^^^ +dtoa() +====== If you enable floating point conversions with CONFIG_LIBC_FLOATINGPOINT, then some files with an unmodified BSD license will be included. That @@ -207,7 +225,7 @@ dtoa(): California, Berkeley and its contributors." libc/string/lib_vikmemcpy.c -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +=========================== If you enable CONFIG_MEMCPY_VIK, then you will build with the optimized version of memcpy from Daniel Vik. Licensing information for that version @@ -236,7 +254,7 @@ libc/string/lib_vikmemcpy.c distribution. libs/libc/math -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +============== If you enable CONFIG_LIB, you will build the math library at libc/math. This library was taken from the math library developed for the Rhombus @@ -258,7 +276,7 @@ libs/libc/math ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF drivers/video/ov2640 -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +==================== WARNING: Some of the information in the data tables in this file came from other projects with conflicting licenses: Linux and ArduCAM. Those diff --git a/Documentation/NuttXCCodingStandard.html b/Documentation/NuttXCCodingStandard.html index cd6eead0d59..2b187b50fc1 100644 --- a/Documentation/NuttXCCodingStandard.html +++ b/Documentation/NuttXCCodingStandard.html @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@