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Licenses

CircleOS is an open source project supporting the community of STM32 application developers using primer, EvoPrimer and Open4 development platforms. Source code has been contributed to CircleOS under various software licenses by supporters and users. All STM32 users are welcomed and encouraged to use the code resources provided here at stm32circle.com while, of course, respecting any license requirements that may apply to the various sources. 

For all other projects provided on this site, please refer to the contributors code and documentation for information regarding applicable licenses.

For the CircleOS project:

  • STM32 microcontroller-specific libraries are provided by STMicroelectronics under their standard user conditions and disclaimer.
    For more information refer, to those sources and to the STMicroelectronics' documentation.
  • CMSIS core-specific files are provided by ARM Ltd. under their standard public license. For more information refer, to those sources and to the ARM documentation.
  • Platform and microcontroller specific sources are provided by IoTize (formerly Raisonance). These files are provided under the Lesser General Public License (license text) for open source software.

CircleOS sources that were provided under other specific licenses are listed in the table below:

Description Files Contributors Applicable license
Filesystem /Circle/OS/Hardware/Filesystem/* ChaN  Copyright ChaN 2009
DMA2D Circle/OS/Hardware/OPEN4/STM32/STM3242x/src/dma2d_graphic.c IoTize
DMA2D Circle/OS/Hardware/OPEN4/STM32/STM3242x/inc/DMA2D_Graphic.h IoTize IoTize Limited Public License
       
       

 

Below is a comparative listing of the different licenses which have been clearly applied by CircleOS contributors.

  View, Modify
Compile Sources
Link with Code
Under More
Restrictive License
License
Fee
Royalties Technical
Support
Warranty /
Guaranty

Lesser General Public
License (LGPL)

 Yes  Yes  No  No User
Community
No

IoTize Limited Public
License

 Yes1  Yes Yes, for Commercial
Products
2
 No Yes3 No

STMicroelectronics

 Yes  Yes  No  No User
Community
No

ARM Ltd.

 Yes  Yes  No

No

User
Community
No

Notes:

1.    Can be viewed, compiled, modified when used with EvoPrimer or Open4 platforms.
2.    Use in commercialized products is requires payment of a one-time license fee. Rights under the license are non-transferable.
3.    IoTize' engineering provides direct technical support to holders of commercial use license. Otherwise support is provided via the user forum stm32circle.com.

 

 

License Texts

License Texts

The following license texts are expressly applied to source contributions of IoTize (formerly Raisonance). For texts of other licenses applied in the CircleOS project, or to other projects posted on stm32circle.com, please refer to the source files and/or documentation of those source files.

 


 

IoTize Limited Public License

Version 1, 1 October 2013

Copyright (C) 2013 IoTize. All rights Reserved
This document may be freely copied *without modification* and redistributed.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of IoTize nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

4. The IoTize may publish revised and/or new versions of the license from time to time. Each version will be given a distinguishing version number. Once covered code has been published under a particular version of the license, you may always continue to use it under the terms of that version. You may also choose to use such covered code under the terms of any subsequent version of the license published by IoTize. No one other than IoTize has the right to modify the terms applicable to covered code created under this License.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE KEOLABS DEVELOPMENT TEAM ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE IOTIZE'S DEVELOPMENT TEAM OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

 


 Lesser General Public License

Version 3, 29 June 2007

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below.

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