Freescale HAL licencing + processor selection help

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Isaac Gutekunst
<isaac.gutekunst at vecna.com> wrote:
> One more point to both clarify and confuse the matter:
>
> http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/tools/PF259243#
>
> Note the sentence:
>
> "The HAL is available in open-source BSD license for user convenience."
>
> It looks like it shouldn't be too hard to get them to release it as a
> separate download.
>
Sounds like the intent is there. One more note below:

>
> Isaac
>
>
> On 06/17/2015 09:08 AM, Isaac Gutekunst wrote:
>>
>> It looks like there are two main issues to tackle:
>>
>> 1) What licences are acceptable to include in the RTEMS distribution
>> with compromising the modified GPL licence?
>>
>> I think the 3-clause BSD licence is acceptable for inclusion within a
>> GPL (and probably most modified GPL licences). I can probably work with
>> our legal team to answer this specific questions, though we can't make
>> the decision for RTEMS and we aren't prepared to offer formal legal
>> advice.
>>
>> In the more general case, it could be useful to browse the Linux kernel
>> tree and see which licences are present.
>>
Since RTEMS has a modified GPL to support static linking, we are
mainly stuck with only accepting permissive licensed code. Even LGPL
is no good. I have written about this before:
http://gedare-csphd.blogspot.com/2013/05/software-licenses-with-rtems.html

Gedare