QP FRAMEWORKS EXCEPTION FOR ARM mbed
Version 1.0, 11 October 2014
Copyright (c) 2014 Quantum Leaps, LLC.
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
This QP Frameworks Exception for ARM mbed ("Exception") is an additional
permission under section 7 of the GNU General Public License, version 3
("GPLv3"). It applies to the QP/C and QP/C++ source code (the
"QP Frameworks").
When you use QP Frameworks inside your program, the QP Framework code is
combined with your code of the program. The purpose of this Exception is
to allow non-GPL (including proprietary) programs to use, in this way,
the QP Frameworks code covered by this Exception.
0. Definitions.
"QP Frameworks" is a family of lightweight real-time frameworks consisting
of QP/C and QP/C++ frameworks, as well as all supporting ports and
examples, as distributed from:
and
"mbed-Enabled Board" means any board with an ARM Cortex-M CPU that is
listed on the official "mbed platforms" website
.
1. Grant of Additional Permission
As a special Exception, the copyright holder of QP Frameworks gives you
permission to propagate a work of Target Code formed by combining the QP
Frameworks with your own source code without the requirement to expose
your propriatory source code, provided that all Target Code will execute
on an "mbed-Enabled Board".
2. No Weakening of GPL
The availability of this Exception does not imply any general
presumption that third-party software is unaffected by the copyleft
requirements of the GPL license.