Copyright and License Information

Firmware kit test application

The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit test application is Copyright 2006 by Intel Corporation and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, as shown here. This license is chosen specifically to allow people who want to write plugins to select the license they want for their plugin.

Third party software licenses

The Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit application is aggregated on a CD with several other open source programs. The table below lists these programs together with their license. The source code and the full license text of these programs are on the download page.

PackageLicense
Linux kernel GPL version 2
LMBench version 3 GPL2 + extra clauses that restrict publication of benchmark results
ISC DHCP BSD
iproute2 GPL version 2
e2fsprogs GPL version 2
newt LGPL version 2
slang Perl Artistic
util-linux GPL version 2
bash GPL version 2
coreutils GPL version 2
findutils GPL version 2
gawk GPL version 2
gdb GPL version 2
glib2 LGPL version 2
glibc LGPL version 2.1
grep GPL version 2
Fedora hwdata package GPL version 2
acl LGPL version 2.1
attr LGPL version 2.1
libselinux Public domain
libsepol LGPL version 2.1
libtermcap LGPL version 2
ncurses MIT
net-tools GPL version 2
pciutils GPL version 2
pcre 3 clause BSD
perl GPL version 2
sed GPL version 2
sysvinit GPL version 2
syslinux GPL version 2