What is the "Business-friendly licensing model?"

stevesarakas · ‎02-04-2016

Doesn't the Kinetis SDK license require the company to turn over the firmware and all the patent rights to their product to nxp Freescale?

stevesarakas · ‎02-16-2016

Both the 1.3 SDK builder page and the 2.0 Standalone version download page require agreement with nxp/Freescale license which is not the same as the BSD license. Section 5 specifically states:

Upon request, you must provide Freescale the source code of any derivative of the Licensed Software. You agree to assign all, and hereby do assign all rights, title, and interest to any such modifications to the Licensed Software to Freescale and agree to provide all assistance reasonably requested by Freescale to establish, preserve or enforce such right. Further, you agree to waive all moral rights of approval, restriction, or limitation on use or subsequent modification.

mnorman · ‎02-09-2016

Hi, Steve,

The KSDK v2 includes several components, each with their own license. However, all Freescale/NXP authored content is provided under a BSD 3-Clause license, which is a common, permissive, open source license. Here are some resources that describe it further:

https://tldrlegal.com/license/bsd-3-clause-license-%28revised%29

The BSD 3-Clause License | Open Source Initiative

All other components are offered under similar open source licenses or evaluation licenses from their authors.

For example, I've pasted the "Software Content Register" for a FRDM-K64F KSDKv2 package, which lists all the software components and their license:.

Release Name: Kinetis So KSDK_2.0.0_GA_REL1

ftware Development Kit (

SDK) Package - Kinetis S

DK

KSDK Peripheral Drivers Description: Peripheral drivers are designed for t

he most common use cases identified for the underl

ying hardware block.

Author: Freescale

version: 2.x.x

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

Location: devices/<device_name>/drivers

CMSIS Core header files Description: Industry-standard header files distri

butes by ARM for cortex-M cores

Author: ARM

version: 4.3 (CMSIS Download 4.5)

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

URL: http://silver.arm.com

Location: CMSIS/Include

CMSIS DSP Library Description: A digital signal processing library f

or Cortex-M cores from ARM

Author: ARM

version: 1.4.5 (CMSIS download 4.5)

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

URL: http://silver.arm.com

Location: CMSIS/DSP_Lib

FreeRTOS(tm) Description: A real-time operating system(RTOS) fr

om Real Time Engineers, Ltd.

Author: Real Time Engineers, Ltd.

version: 8.2.3

License: Modified GPLv2. See rtos/freertos/License

/license.txt.

Format: source code

URL: http://www.freertos.org

Location: rtos/freertos_8.2.3

uC/OS-II(R) Description: A real-time operating system(RTOS) fr

om Micrium

Author: Micrium, Inc.

version: 2.92.11

License: Proprietary. See LA_OPT_Base_License.htm,

Appendix A, Micrium.

Format: source code

URL: http://micrium.com

Location: rtos/ucosii_2.92.11

uC/OS-III(R) Description: A real-time operating system(RTOS) fr

om Micrium

Author: Micrium, Inc.

version: 3.05.01

License: Proprietary. See LA_OPT_Base_License.htm,

Appendix A, Micrium.

Format: source code

URL: http://micrium.com

Location: rtos/ucosiii_3.05.01

SD MMC Card middleware Description: A software componnet support SD card,

eMMC card.

Author: Freescale

version: 2.0.0

License: Open Source - BSC-3-Clause

Format: source code

Location: middleware/sdmmc_2.0.0

MBED TLS stack Description: Cryptographic and SSL/TLS Library

Author: ARM

version: 2.1.2

License: Apache-2-Clause

Format: source code

URL: https://tls.mbed.org/

Location: middleware/mbedtls_2.1.2

DMA Manager Description: A software component used for manage

on-chip DMA channel resources.

Author: Freescale

version: 2.0.0

License: Open Source - BSC-3-Clause

Format: source code

Location: middleware/dma_manager_2.0.0

USB Description: Freescale USB stack. This is a versio

n of the USB stack that has been integrated with t

he Kinetis SDK.

Author: Freescale

version: 1.0.0

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

Location: middleware/usb_1.0.0

lwIP TCP/IP Stack Description: A light-weight TCP/IP stack

Author: Swedish Institute of Computer Science

version: 1.4.1

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip

Location: middleware/lwip_1.4.1

wolfSSL Description: wolfSSL is cryptography and SSL/TLS l

ibrary

Author: wolfSSL Inc.

version: 3.6.8

License: 3rd party evaluation. See middleware/wolf

ssl_3.6.8/wolfSSL_cyaSSL_evaluation_license_agreem

ent.pdf

Format: source code

URL: https://www.wolfssl.com

Location: middleware/wolfssl_3.6.8

mmCAU S/W Library Description: S/W library that works with the memor

y-mapped cryptographic acceleration unit present o

n some Kinetis SoCs

Author: Freescale

version: 2.0.0

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

Location: middleware/mmcau_2.0.0

EMV L1 stack Description: The EMV (Europay-MasterCard-Visa) L1

stack which complies to EMV_v4.3_Book_1 specificat

ion.

Author: Freescale

version: 2.0.0

License: Open Source - BSD-3-Clause

Format: source code

Location: middleware/emv_2.0.0

FatFs Description: FatFs is a generic FAT file system mo

dule for small embedded systems.

Author: Electronic Lives Mfg. by ChaN of Ageo city

, Japan (hobbyist)

version: 0.11a

License: Open Source - FatFs License, middleware/f

atfs/doc/en/appnote.html

Format: source code

URL: http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html

Approved Open Source License: Yes

Location: middleware/fatfs_0.11a

ivadorazinova · ‎02-05-2016

Hi Steve,

thank you for your question.

Please, can you provide to us more details about your problem you face to?

Maybe mnorman could help with the KSDK license and the patent rights and tell more details.

Thank you,

Have a nice day.

Iva

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