[En-Nut-Discussion] Licensing issues

[Ole Reinhardt]

Dear all,

As mentioned before I cleaned up the interrupt code to get rid of the
last reference to the Luminary License.

But we still have references to some files licensed under the 

MCD-ST Liberty SW License Agreement V2
STMicroelectronics Guidance Only

in some crucial parts of Nut/OS.

These are:

nut/arch/cm3/cmsis/ostimer_cortex.c
nut/arch/cm3/os/nutinit.c

in the configurator we still have to accept these licenses independedd
of what kind of Cortex CPUs we are building for.

@Uwe and Harald:

What is the current status about these licenses? Especially the 

http://www.st.com/software_license_agreement_liberty_v2

Does not allow us to even publish our code as long as we do not fully
adhere to their license terms, especially:

"...and provided further that such Licensed Software or derivative works
of the Licensed Software execute solely and exclusively on
microcontroller devices manufactured by or for ST"

But this term also makes me thinking about the whole issue again:

In my understanding they say that their code may only be published as
long as it will run in their CPUs. But Nut/OS does not include this code
for any other CPU, right?

Would this allow us to remove the dependencies to their license
agreement in the configurator?

Anyway I would definately feel much better if we get a clean BSDL
confirming licensing.

@Harald: Didn't you say that you have a good contact to STM? Is there
any chance to get into dialog with them to clean-up their licenses or
get a exception to it?


Best regards,

Ole Reinhardt

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