FreeRTOS Legal Information

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mutty00 wrote on Sunday, July 02, 2017:

Hello,

I’m using FreeRTOS on a commercial product.
My project uses FreeRTOS code and proprietary code. No project source code are distributed outside my company.

Is there something that I’ve to do in order to fully respect FreeRTOS license agreements in this kind of situation ???

Someone tell me that I have to notify ( for example on user manual ) that product uses FreeRTOS inside.
Is it correct ? I’ve to give other informations ?

Thank you.

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xz8987f wrote on Sunday, July 02, 2017:

have a read at http://www.freertos.org/a00114.html.
And make sure you check out http://www.freertos.org/license.txt
(note: of course, this is not a legal advice, check with your legal departement)

Erich

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rtel wrote on Sunday, July 02, 2017:

Who told you you had to notify somebody? The FreeRTOS license has a
linkage exception that says when FreeRTOS is linked into an application
the application can be distributed under the terms of your choice, which
means without effecting how any other software you link into the
application is licensed, and without imposing any restrictions or
requirements on you (so no requirement to state anything). ‘of your
choice’ means you decide.

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alainm3 wrote on Sunday, July 02, 2017:

This page has been referenced a lot lately but is 404ing:
FreeRTOS open source licensing, FreeRTOS license description, FreeRTOS license terms and OpenRTOS commercial licensing options..

Please check this…

Thanks,
Alain

On 02-07-2017 13:58, Real Time Engineers ltd. wrote:

Who told you you had to notify somebody? The FreeRTOS license has a
linkage exception that says when FreeRTOS is linked into an application
the application can be distributed under the terms of your choice, which
means without effecting how any other software you link into the
application is licensed, and without imposing any restrictions or
requirements on you (so no requirement to state anything). ‘of your
choice’ means you decide.

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rtel wrote on Sunday, July 02, 2017:

Link works fine for me. Ensure you are not including the full
stop/period/’.’ character in the URL. http://www.freertos.org/a00114.html