END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT FOR THE CORTEX MICROCONTROLLER SOFTWARE INTERFACE | |
STANDARD (CMSIS) SPECIFICATION AND SOFTWARE | |
THIS END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT ("LICENCE") IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER A | |
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CMSIS SPECIFICATION, EXAMPLE CODE, DSP LIBRARY SPECIFICATION AND DSP LIBRARY | |
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"CMSIS Specification" means any documentation and C programming language files defining the application | |
programming interface, naming and coding conventions of the Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface | |
Standard (CMSIS) as well as the System View Description (SVD) documentation and associated XML schema | |
file. Notwithstanding the foregoing, "CMSIS Specification" shall not include (i) the implementation of other | |
published specifications referenced in the CMSIS Specification; (ii) any enabling technologies that may be | |
necessary to make or use any product or portion thereof that complies with the CMSIS Specification, but are not | |
themselves expressly set forth in the CMSIS Specification (e.g. compiler front ends, code generators, back ends, | |
libraries or other compiler, assembler or linker technologies; validation or debug software or hardware; | |
applications, operating system or driver software; RISC architecture; processor microarchitecture); (iii) | |
maskworks and physical layouts of integrated circuit designs; or (iv) RTL or other high level representations of | |
integrated circuit designs. | |
"DSP Library Implementation" means any C programming language source code implementing the functionality | |
of the digital signal processor (DSP) algorithms and the application programming interface as defined in the DSP | |
Library Specification. The DSP Library Implementation makes use of CMSIS application programming interface | |
and therefore is targeted at Cortex-M class processors. | |
"DSP Library Specification" means the DSP library documentation and C programming language file defining the | |
application programming interface of the DSP Library Implementation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, "DSP | |
Library Specification" shall not include (i) the implementation of other published specifications referenced in the | |
DSP Library Specification; (ii) any enabling technologies that may be necessary to make or use any product or | |
portion thereof that complies with the DSP Library Specification, but are not themselves expressly set forth in the | |
DSP Library Specification (e.g. compiler front ends, code generators, back ends, libraries or other compiler, | |
assembler or linker technologies; validation or debug software or hardware; applications, operating system or | |
driver software; RISC architecture; processor microarchitecture); (iii) maskworks and physical layouts of | |
integrated circuit designs; or (iv) RTL or other high level representations of integrated circuit designs. | |
"Example Code" means any files in C, C++ or ARM assembly programming languages, associated project and | |
configuration files that demonstrate the usage of the CMSIS Specification, the DSP Library Specification and the | |
DSP Library Implementation, for microprocessors or device specific software applications that are for use with | |
microprocessors. | |
1. LICENCE GRANTS. | |
1.1 ARM hereby grants to you, subject to the terms and conditions of this Licence, a non-exclusive, nontransferable | |
licence, to; | |
(i) use and copy the CMSIS Specification for the purpose of developing, having developed, manufacturing, | |
having manufactured, offering to sell, selling, supplying or otherwise distributing products that comply with the | |
CMSIS Specification, provided that you preserve any copyright notices which are included with, or in, the CMSIS | |
Specification and provided that you do not use ARM's name, logo or trademarks to market such products; | |
(ii) use, copy, and modify (solely to the extent necessary to incorporate the whole or any part of the DSP Library | |
Specification into your documentation), the DSP Library Specification, for the purpose of developing, having | |
developed, manufacturing, having manufactured, offering to sell, selling, supplying or otherwise distributing | |
products that comply with the DSP Library Specification, and distribute and have distributed any documentation | |
created by or for you that has been derived from the DSP Library Specification with such products, provided that | |
you preserve any copyright notices which are included with, or in, the DSP Library Specification and provided that | |
you do not use ARM's name, logo or trademarks to market such products; | |
(iii) use, copy, modify and sublicense the Example Code solely for the purpose of developing, having developed, | |
manufacturing, having manufactured, offering to sell, selling, supplying or otherwise distributing products that | |
comply with either or both the CMSIS Specification and the DSP Library Specification, provided that you preserve | |
any copyright notices which are included with, or in, the Example Code and that you do not use ARM's name, | |
logo or trademarks to market such products; | |
(iv) use, copy and modify (provided that the logical functionality and the application programming interface of the | |
DSP Library Implementation are maintained) the DSP Library Implementation, solely for the purposes of | |
developing; (a) software applications for use with microprocessors manufactured or simulated under licence from | |
ARM ("Software Applications"); and (b) tools that are designed to develop software programs for use with | |
microprocessors manufactured or simulated under licence from ARM ("Tools"); and | |
(v) subject to clause 1.1(vi) below; (a) distribute and sublicense the use of the DSP Library Implementation | |
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incorporated into Software Library Applications and Tools to third parties; and (b) sublicense to such third parties | |
the right to use and copy the Tools for the purposes of developing and distribute software programs for use with | |
microprocessors manufactured or simulated under licence from ARM. | |
(vi) CONDITIONS ON REDISTRIBUTION: If you choose to redistribute the whole or any part of the DSP Library | |
Implementation as incorporated into Software Library Applications or Tools, you agree to; (a) ensure that the | |
DSP Library Implementation is licensed for use only as part of Software Library Applications and Tools and only | |
for use with microprocessors manufactured or simulated under licence from ARM; (b) not to use ARM's name, | |
logo or trademarks to market Software Applications and Tools; and (c) include valid copyright notices on | |
Software Applications and Tools, and preserve any copyright notices which are included with, or in, the DSP | |
Library Implementation. | |
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7. TERM AND TERMINATION. | |
7.1 This Licence shall remain in force until terminated in accordance with the terms of Clause 7.2 or Clause 7.3 | |
below. | |
7.2 Without prejudice to any of its other rights if you are in breach of any of the terms and conditions of this | |
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patent is Necessary to implement the CMSIS Specification or DSP Library Specification. In this Licence; (i) | |
"affiliate" means any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with a party (in fact or in law, via | |
voting securities, management control or otherwise) and "affiliated" shall be construed accordingly; (ii) "assert" | |
means to allege infringement in legal or administrative proceedings, or proceedings before any other competent | |
trade, arbitral or international authority; (iii) "Necessary" means with respect to any claims of any patent, those | |
claims which, without the appropriate permission of the patent owner, will be infringed when implementing the | |
CMSIS Specification or DSP Library Specification because no alternative, commercially reasonable, noninfringing | |
way of implementing the CMSIS Specification or DSP Library Specification is known. | |
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ARM Deliverables in your possession. The provisions of clauses 5, 6, 7, and 8 shall survive termination of this | |
Licence. | |
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