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Anas Nashiffc613702017-01-03 14:38:53 -05003.. _zephyr_licensing:
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5Licensing of Zephyr Project components
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8The Zephyr kernel tree imports or reuses packages, scripts and other files that
David B. Kinderb03ed2b2017-08-21 13:46:43 -07009are not covered by the `Apache 2.0 License`_. In some places
Anas Nashiffc613702017-01-03 14:38:53 -050010there is no LICENSE file or way to put a LICENSE file there, so we describe the
11licensing in this document.
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David B. Kinderb03ed2b2017-08-21 13:46:43 -070013.. _Apache 2.0 License:
14 https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/blob/master/LICENSE
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16.. _GPLv2 License:
17 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/COPYING
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Anas Nashif3e4efa02017-08-17 23:10:16 -040019*scripts/{checkpatch.pl,checkstack.pl,get_maintainers.pl,spelling.txt}*
Anas Nashiffc613702017-01-03 14:38:53 -050020 *Origin:* Linux Kernel
David B. Kinderb03ed2b2017-08-21 13:46:43 -070021
22 *Licensing:* `GPLv2 License`_