I have noticed that the header files for the peripheral addresses and registers, for example in my case this would be the MKL26Z4.h in the devices/MKL26Z4/ folder (which is the only file from the SDK I really need) contains the following copyright nbotice:
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If I produce a commercial product that contains a Kinetis micro controller with firmware written and built by me using the register defines from the Freescale CMSIS header file, does this constitute a "redistribution in binary form" and I am required to enclose it with a piece of paper citing the entire paragraph cited above?
Or can it be argued that a header file like this will not produce any code in the resulting binary at all because it merely consists of declarations?
