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Dual Licencing

Tadgh Kelly
Prodigy 10 points
We have some queries from our customer about the licencing of the XDC tools package. Would you be able to provide some clarification of the dual licencing model.

We found this comment on the TI web site: http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/rtsc/3_30_05_60/exports/xdctools_3_30_05_60_manifest.html

Unless otherwise declared in the XDCtools License Manifest, all Target Device Content is dual-licensed under EDL v1.0

Our Cusotmer have EPL licences on their blacklist. We are trying to find out the reason for this. So is it possible to get a statement from TI that EDLV1.0 applies to this package?
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    TI__Guru* 96960 points

    Hi Tadgh,

    The engineer that can answer this best is currently out of the office. He should return by sometime tomorrow and will answer this then.

    Todd

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    TI__Expert 5560 points

    Tadgh,

    XDC consists of both host-based tools and embeddable run-time libraries. All the host tools (unless stated in the Manifest) are licensed under the EPL. The run-time libraries (unless stated in the manifest) are under an EDL (https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php). This is essentially the same as the BSD license.

    So the EDL license allow customers to do whatever they like with their embedded code (and any included libraries). The EPL license itlself is pretty harmless. The only requirement is that if you modify any of the source files for the tools, you have to make these specific modifications publicly available. It doesn't affect any other code the customer is developing. My guess is that they had inexperienced legal people creating that blacklist.

    Nick Lethaby