Open Source Licensing

Open Source Used by the PassivHub and PassivController

The PassivHub and PassivController includes several open source packages under different open source licenses as listed below. Source code for the GPL and LGPL packages are available directly from PassivSystems™ offices on CD for an administrative and postage charge of £4.50; contact opensource@passivsystems.com.

Packages Used in the PassivHub

Atmel Bootstrap is licensed as follows:

Copyright (c) 2006, Atmel Corporation All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the disclaiimer below. Atmel's name may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. DISCLAIMER: THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ATMEL "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL ATMEL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

ethtool, busybox, cpio, util-linux, rpm, u-boot, procps, mtd-utils are licensed under the GPLv2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

expat is licensed under http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/COPYING?revision=1.4

libstdc++ is licensed under the GPLv3 with exceptions: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html

curl is licensed under http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html

libxml2, popt are licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html

pcre is licensed under http://www.pcre.org/licence.txt

bzip2 is licensed as follows:

This program, "bzip2", the associated library "libbzip2", and all documentation, are copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian R Seward. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 3. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Julian Seward, jseward@bzip.org bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.6 of 6 September 2010

glibmm, uclibc, libxmlxx, glibc, libsigcxx, glib2 are licensed under the LGPLv2.1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

ncurses is licensed as follows:

-- Copyright (c) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- -- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including -- -- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, -- -- distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell copies -- -- of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished -- -- to do so, subject to the following conditions: -- -- -- -- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included -- -- in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. -- -- -- -- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS -- -- OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF -- -- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN -- -- NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, -- -- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR -- -- OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE -- -- USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -- -- -- -- Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright -- -- holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the -- -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. --

sqlite3 is licensed under the Public Domain: http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

boost is licensed under the Boost license: http://www.boost.org/users/license.html

protobuf is licensed under http://protobuf.googlecode.com/svn/tags/2.4.1/COPYING.txt

python is licensed under the Python Software Foundation License: http://docs.python.org/license.html

lighttpd is licensed under http://www.lighttpd.net/download/COPYING

iana-etc is licensed under the OSLv3: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0

db is licensed under http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/berkeleydb/downloads/oslicense-093458.html

Linux Kernel is licensed under the GPLv2: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/COPYING

libffi is licensed under https://raw.github.com/atgreen/libffi/master/LICENSE

strace is licensed as follows:

Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl> Copyright (c) 1993 Branko Lankester <branko@hacktic.nl> Copyright (c) 1993 Ulrich Pegelow <pegelow@moorea.uni-muenster.de> Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@duracef.shout.net> Copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@deephackmode.org> All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

openssh is licensed under http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr.bin/ssh/LICENCE?rev=1.19;content-type=text%2Fplain

zlib is licensed under the zlib license: http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

openssl is licensed under http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html

beecrypt is licensed under the LGPLv2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

Packages Used in the PassivController

newlib is licensed under http://sourceware.org/newlib/COPYING.NEWLIB

libpng, zlib are licensed under the zlib license: http://zlib.net/zlib_license.html

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