Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

ovrebekk — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:26:50 GMT

No problem, I'm happy to help 🙂

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

tBStar — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:27:42 GMT

You made my day. Sorry I hijacked this thread but I wanted to build on it so that others may benefit.

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

ovrebekk — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:14:52 GMT

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4. This software, with or without modification, must only be used with a
Nordic Semiconductor ASA integrated circuit.

Using a custom board with any nRF chip on a Nordic or non Nordic BLE module is permissible, correct?

I can confirm that this is OK. Otherwise most of our customers would be breaking the license ;)

As long as the chip itself is from Nordic it doesn't matter what board or module it is embedded on.

[quote user="tBStar"]What about the Soft Device, is there any restrictions governing the use and distribution of your soft devices on such custom boards? [/quote]

Same thing here. All we care about is that a Nordic chip is used.

[quote user="tBStar"]What about the tools the come with the Nordic suite such as: nRFConnect (Mobile/Windows), nRF Toolbox, nRFgo Studio, can I feature one or move in the videos?[/quote]

You are free to discuss and show of these tools in videos, yes.

In general we only put restrictions on how the tools themselves are re-distributed. As long as you link to the official Nordic downloads/apps it's no problem.

Best regards
Torbjørn

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

tBStar — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 03:47:39 GMT

I appreciate the response. for

4. This software, with or without modification, must only be used with a
Nordic Semiconductor ASA integrated circuit.

Using a custom board with any nRF chip on a Nordic or non Nordic BLE module is permissible, correct?

What about the Soft Device, is there any restrictions governing the use and distribution of your soft devices on such custom boards?

What about the tools the come with the Nordic suite such as: nRFConnect (Mobile/Windows), nRF Toolbox, nRFgo Studio, can I feature one or move in the videos?

Thanks

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

ovrebekk — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:30:43 GMT

The SDK license is described in the documentation folder in the SDK, in the licenses.txt and nRF5_Nordic_license.txt files.

As you can see most of the SDK is covered by the 5-clause license described in nRF5_Nordic_license.txt, and these files can be re-distributed as long as you follow the requirements set out by the license.

If you still have questions after going through these files just let me know, and I will try to help out 🙂

Best regards
Torbjørn

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

tBStar — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 02:19:48 GMT

Ovrebekk,

I am creating a Udemy course around projects powered by a nRF52 custom dev board, I will be using your SDK and some of the examples that comes with it. Is it still Ok to do so?

Thanks

RE: Is it legal to post BLE lectures using Nordic's Github in the web?

ovrebekk — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:17:25 GMT

You are free to talk about and show the Toolbox code in blogs/videos, we don't mind the publicity :)

The license is mainly concerned with how you can re-distribute the code, and derive your own works off of it.

Best regards
Torbjørn