Apache License 2.0 all right for BSP code?

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 7:44 AM Karel Gardas <karel at functional.vision>
wrote:

> On 3/10/22 13:36, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am about to integrate the BSP update contained in this branch:
> >
> > https://github.com/kgardas/rtems/tree/stm32h7-hal-update
> >
> > It contains code from STMicroelectronics licensed under Apache License
> > 2.0. Is this license acceptable for RTEMS integration?
> >
>
> Ah, I see, this was already discussed (to OK) but only on discord and
> I've not udpated #4580 accordingly. So let's wait for clear confirmation
> then.
>

I think it's ok.

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

There was some discussion (or confusion) long ago that it required you to
keep a track of which changes to that source were by who. I don't see that
in the license at all. IMO it's just another variant on MIT/BSD with more
detail.

--joel

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