initial port to stm32f4-discovery (cortex-m4)

[Sebastian Huber]

On 03/03/2012 04:29 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 03:21 PM, emu at e-bbes.com wrote:
>> Zitat von Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I looked at this BSP. It contains a lot of files from ARM and
>>> STMicroelectronics with file headers like this:
>>> [..]
>>> Where can I find the license information of these files?
>>
>> I would assume (not really knowing where it came from), that it is from the
>> "STM32F4DISCOVERY board firmware package" downloadable at the bottom of :
>> http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252419.jsp
>
> http://www.st.com/internet/com/LEGAL_RESOURCES/LEGAL_AGREEMENT/LICENSE_AGREEMENT/EvaluationProductLicenseAgreement.pdf
>
>
> => eval-only, only in connection with eval-board, non-commercial only.
> == non-free

This is the license for the board, not the software.

>
> => These files can not be part of RTEMS.

To me it is completely unclear what the license for these source files is.  I 
will contact STMicroelectronics, but I think this will take months to change. 
This is yet another silicon vendor who plagues its customers (at least the one 
who care about licenses) with useless source code for its products.

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