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  1. The FreeRTOS source code is licensed by a *modified* GNU General Public
  2. License (GPL). The modification is provided in the form of an exception.
  3. NOTE: The modification to the GPL is included to allow you to distribute a
  4. combined work that includes FreeRTOS without being obliged to provide the source
  5. code for proprietary components outside of the FreeRTOS kernel.
  6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  7. The FreeRTOS GPL Exception Text:
  8. Any FreeRTOS source code, whether modified or in it's original release form,
  9. or whether in whole or in part, can only be distributed by you under the terms
  10. of the GNU General Public License plus this exception. An independent module is
  11. a module which is not derived from or based on FreeRTOS.
  12. Clause 1:
  13. Linking FreeRTOS statically or dynamically with other modules is making a
  14. combined work based on FreeRTOS. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU
  15. General Public License cover the whole combination.
  16. As a special exception, the copyright holder of FreeRTOS gives you permission
  17. to link FreeRTOS with independent modules that communicate with FreeRTOS
  18. solely through the FreeRTOS API interface, regardless of the license terms of
  19. these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting combined
  20. work under terms of your choice, provided that
  21. + Every copy of the combined work is accompanied by a written statement that
  22. details to the recipient the version of FreeRTOS used and an offer by yourself
  23. to provide the FreeRTOS source code (including any modifications you may have
  24. made) should the recipient request it.
  25. + The combined work is not itself an RTOS, scheduler, kernel or related product.
  26. + The independent modules add significant and primary functionality to FreeRTOS
  27. and do not merely extend the existing functionality already present in FreeRTOS.
  28. Clause 2:
  29. FreeRTOS may not be used for any competitive or comparative purpose, including the
  30. publication of any form of run time or compile time metric, without the express
  31. permission of Real Time Engineers Ltd. (this is the norm within the industry and
  32. is intended to ensure information accuracy).
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  34. The standard GPL exception text:
  35. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  36. Version 2, June 1991
  37. Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  38. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  39. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  40. of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
  41. Preamble
  42. The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
  43. freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
  44. License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
  45. software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
  46. General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
  47. Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
  48. using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
  49. the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
  50. your programs, too.
  51. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
  52. price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
  53. have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
  54. this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
  55. if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
  56. in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
  57. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
  58. anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
  59. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
  60. distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
  61. For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
  62. gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
  63. you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
  64. source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
  65. rights.
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  67. (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
  68. distribute and/or modify the software.
  69. Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
  70. that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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  80. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
  81. modification follow.
  82. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  83. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  84. 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
  85. a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
  86. under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
  87. refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
  88. means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
  89. that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
  90. either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
  91. language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
  92. the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
  93. Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
  94. covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
  95. running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
  96. is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
  97. Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
  98. Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
  99. 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  100. source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
  101. conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
  102. copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
  103. notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
  104. and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
  105. along with the Program.
  106. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
  107. you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
  108. 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
  109. of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
  110. distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
  111. above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
  112. a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
  113. stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
  114. b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
  115. whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
  116. part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
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  118. c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
  119. when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
  120. interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
  121. announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
  122. notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
  123. a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
  124. these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
  125. License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
  126. does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
  127. the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
  128. These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
  129. identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
  130. and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
  131. themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
  132. sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
  133. distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
  134. on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
  135. this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
  136. entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
  137. Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
  138. your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
  139. exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
  140. collective works based on the Program.
  141. In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
  142. with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
  143. a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
  144. the scope of this License.
  145. 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
  146. under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
  147. Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
  148. a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
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  151. b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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  153. cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
  154. machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
  155. distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
  156. customarily used for software interchange; or,
  157. c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
  158. to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
  159. allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
  160. received the program in object code or executable form with such
  161. an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
  162. The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
  163. making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
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  166. control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
  167. special exception, the source code distributed need not include
  168. anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
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  174. access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
  175. distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
  176. compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
  177. 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
  178. except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
  179. otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
  180. void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
  181. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
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  183. parties remain in full compliance.
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  190. all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
  191. the Program or works based on it.
  192. 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
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  194. original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
  195. these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
  196. restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
  197. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
  198. this License.
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  200. infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
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  204. distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
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  206. may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
  207. license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
  208. all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
  209. the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
  210. refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
  211. If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
  212. any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
  213. apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
  214. circumstances.
  215. It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
  216. patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
  217. such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
  218. integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
  219. implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
  220. generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
  221. through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
  222. system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
  223. to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
  224. impose that choice.
  225. This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
  226. be a consequence of the rest of this License.
  227. 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
  228. certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
  229. original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
  230. may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
  231. those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
  232. countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
  233. the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
  234. 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
  235. of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
  236. be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
  237. address new problems or concerns.
  238. Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
  239. specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
  240. later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
  241. either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
  242. Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
  243. this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
  244. Foundation.
  245. 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
  246. programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
  247. to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
  248. Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
  249. make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
  250. of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
  251. of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
  252. NO WARRANTY
  253. 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
  254. FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
  255. OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
  256. PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
  257. OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
  258. MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
  259. TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
  260. PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
  261. REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
  262. 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
  263. WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
  264. REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
  265. INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
  266. OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
  267. TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
  268. YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
  269. PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
  270. POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
  271. END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
  272. How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
  273. If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
  274. possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
  275. free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
  276. To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
  277. to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
  278. convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
  279. the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
  280. <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
  281. Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
  282. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  283. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License** as published by
  284. the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  285. (at your option) any later version.
  286. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  287. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  288. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  289. GNU General Public License for more details.
  290. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  291. along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  292. Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  293. Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
  294. If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
  295. when it starts in an interactive mode:
  296. Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
  297. Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
  298. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  299. under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
  300. The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
  301. parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
  302. be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
  303. mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
  304. You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
  305. school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
  306. necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
  307. Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  308. `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
  309. <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  310. Ty Coon, President of Vice
  311. This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
  312. proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
  313. consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
  314. library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
  315. Public License instead of this License.