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PREFACE
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Conceiving and understanding a new license is not an easy task. To make things
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easier for both, the author and the licensee, we have decided to base our
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license for the USB driver on an existing license with well-understood
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properties.
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Our favorite choice for the base license was the GNU General Public License
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(GPL). However, we cannot use the GNU GPL directly for the following reasons:
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(1) It was not intended for projects involving hardware -- we must extend the
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term "source code" to at least the circuit diagram.
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(2) The GNU GPL does not require publication. Only if a binary is published,
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it requires that the source is published as well. This is reasonable for
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software because unpublished software is of little relevance. For projects
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involving hardware, we want to REQUIRE publication. More than that, we
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even want to define HOW the publication must be done (files contained,
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file formats etc).
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(3) As the author of the software, we can distribute it under more than one
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license. For people who don't want to meet the obligations of the GNU GPL,
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we want to offer commercial licenses. To avoid a split in revisions of
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the driver, we need special privileges to distribute contributed
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modifications under proprietary licenses.
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We can not simply modify the GNU GPL and incorporate our changes because the
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Free Software Foundation (FSF) who holds the copyright for the text of the
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GNU GPL does not allow modifications. We therefore set up our own small
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license which incorporates the GNU GPL by reference:
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LICENSE FOR PROJECTS BUILT WITH "OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT'S
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FIRMWARE-ONLY USB-DRIVER FOR ATMEL'S AVR MICROCONTROLLERS"
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Version 2006-01
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I. Definitions
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"OBDEV" shall mean OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT Software GmbH or any legal successor
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thereof.
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"Software Source Code" shall mean the preferred form of the software for
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making modifications to it.
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"USB Driver" shall mean the Software Source Code for OBDEV's firmware-only
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USB-driver for Atmel's AVR microcontrollers.
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"Function" shall mean the Software Source Code for all software executed on
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the microcontroller except the USB Driver.
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"Host Software" shall mean the Software Source Code for all software required
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to control the USB device from the USB host running any operating system.
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"Project" shall mean the USB Driver, the Function, the Host Software, circuit
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diagrams of the controller based hardware and accompanying documentation.
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"source code" shall have the same meaning as the term "Project" above.
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"Web Site" shall mean a collection of text and multimedia documents accessible
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worldwide over internet through the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on
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TCP port 80 (standard HTTP port).
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II. General License Terms
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The general terms of this license consist of the GNU General Public License
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Version 2 (GNU GPL2) which is hereby incorporated into this section as though
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it were fully set forth here. A copy of the GNU GPL2 is included for your
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convenience in appendix A of this license.
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The term "source code" in the GNU GPL2 is to be understood as defined in
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section I above. If any term or definition in section I, III, IV or V
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conflicts with the GNU GPL2, the term or definition in section I, III, IV or
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V has precedence of the GNU GPL2.
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III. Distribution of the Project
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The distributed form of a Project must contain at least the following files:
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(a) Software Source Code files for the USB Driver, the Function and the Host
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Software.
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(b) Circuit diagrams for the hardware in PDF, PNG or GIF image file format.
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(c) A file with name "Readme.txt" in ASCII format with at least the following
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content (in English language):
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- An explanation what the Project does.
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- What to do with the distributed files (installation procedure etc.).
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- A reference to Objective Development's USB driver.
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- Your (author's) name and contact information. E-mail and/or URL is
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sufficient.
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(d) Optionally a text file with a description of the circuit diagram, an
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explanation of special (software) techniques used etc.
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(e) A copy of this license in a file with the name "License.txt". This copy
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can be in the "usbdrv" subdirectory which contains the driver.
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IV. Requirement for Publication
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All modifications and derived work (Projects using the USB Driver) MUST be
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distributed (published) as described in section III above on a Web Site. The
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main page must reproduce at least a description of the Project (e.g. as
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contained in the "Readme.txt" file distributed) and a download link for the
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entire Project. The URL of the main page must be submitted to OBDEV. OBDEV
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will provide a mechanism for submitting Project URLs and for publishing
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Projects on their Web Site. The Project must remain available for at least
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twelve (12) months after the initial publication or at least six (6) months
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after a subsequent version of that particular Project has been published.
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V. Author Privileges
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OBDEV reserves the right to distribute the USB Driver and all modified
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versions under other (proprietary) licenses. If you modify the USB Driver
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under the grants of this license, you therefore grant OBDEV (in addition to
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the grants of the GNU GPL2) a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable royalty free
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license for your modifications. OBDEV shall not automatically gain rights
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other than those of the GNU GPL2 in the other parts of the Project. This
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section V overrides possibly contradicting terms in the GNU GPL2 referenced
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in section II.
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APPENDIX A
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2, June 1991
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Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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Preamble
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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
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License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
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General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
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When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
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Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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Ty Coon, President of Vice
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