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License Texts and Acknowledgements for any open
source software used in this Philips product
Philips Electronics Hong Kong Ltd. hereby offers to deliver, upon request, a copy of the complete corresponding
source code for the copyrighted open source software packages used in this product for which such offer is
requested by the respective licenses. This offer is valid up to three years after product purchase to anyone in
receipt of this information. To obtain source code, please contact
write to Open Source Team, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, P.O. Box 220, 5600 AE Eindhoven, The
1. eCos
has been added which limits the circumstances in which the license applies to other code when used in
conjunction with eCos. The exception clause is as follows:
itself cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General Public License. However the source code
GNU General Public License.
The goal of the license is to serve the eCos user community as a whole. It allows all eCos users to develop
products without paying anybody anything, no matter how many developers are working on the product or
how many units will be shipped. The license also guarantees that the eCos source code will always be freely
available. This applies not only to the core eCos code itself but also to any changes that anybody makes to the
core. In particular, it should prevent any company or individual contributing code to the system and then later
claiming that all eCos users are now guilty of copyright or patent infringements and have to pay royalties. It
should also prevent any company from making some small improvements, calling the result a completely new
system, and releasing this under a new and less generous license.
The license does not require users to release the source code of any applications that are developed with
derived in any way from eCos code, then we believe that the entire user community should have the
the binaries you deliver (or with any device containing such binaries) or with a written offer to supply the
source code to the general public for three years. It is perhaps most practical for eCos developers to make
the source code available online and inform those who are receiving binaries containing eCos code, and
probably also the eCos maintainers, about the location of the code. See the
we are always pleased to receive code
in return for what they received from the eCos project completely free of charge. The eCos maintainers are
responsible for deciding whether such contributions should be applied to the public repository. In addition, a
copyright assignment
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GPL-compatible Free Software License
contributions and hope that developers will also be keen to give back
. If you prefer not to
GNU General Public License (GPL)
. An exception clause
for the most
full text of the GPL
.