Xilinx Microblaze copyrights question

[Hesham Moustafa]

I didn't find a separate license file but I found this license
paragraph on one of the header files:

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The UART device is simple RS232 UART, which I believe there is an
implementation somewhere in RTEMS that I can use with minimal effort.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> These may already be in the tree as part of the Zynq port if the serial port(s) are the same.
>
> Please post the full copyright text but check if the same code is already in the tree in support of another of their ports.
>
> And congratulations on getting it working this much quickly. :)
>
> On January 28, 2015 1:07:38 PM CST, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>See if there is a license in the distribution that contained the Xilinx
>>files.
>>
>>-Gedare
>>
>>On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Hesham Moustafa
>><heshamelmatary at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am currently porting RTEMS to Microblaze based on Joel's work.
>>Hello
>>> world hits Init and printf successfully, so I have to write a console
>>> driver. Xilinx has UART driver already. The question is can I copy
>>> code from Xilinx files to RTEMS? The files have "(c) Copyright
>>> 2002-2013 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved." lines only.
>>>
>>> P.S. Joel's work quotes files from Xilinx as is.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Hesham
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> --joel