Licensing

Open SoC Debug is licensed in a way which allows you to use, modify, and distribute OSD itself and products based on it without paying any royalties. At the same time, The OSD Contributors do not give any warranty that it works as expected (or at all). The legal details are layed out in the licenses that govern the individual parts of OSD. Due to the different nature of code and documentation, we use different licenses.

Note

Only the licenses and other legal documents itself are binding, this page only gives a human-readable and not legally binding overview. We cannot provide any legal advise if OSD is usable for your use case. Please speak to a lawyer in such cases.

Documentation License

This documentation, including the OSD specification itself, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

Reference Implementation License

We try to keep the reference implementation free for use even in commercial closed-source settings. Towards this goal, the software is generally licensed under the MIT license, while the hardware reference implementation carries the Solderpad License, a variant of the Apache 2.0 software license adjusted for hardware implementations.

Please see the individual source code repositories and files for more detailled information and possible exceptions.