What about licensing and copyrights?

[Anne van Rossum]

Dear Nordic,

The guys at ARM have this community around mbed which looks great. I would like to use it, but before I do, I would like to check if their use of your (source) code is acceptable. See e.g. the files that are part of their SDK, such as:

developer.mbed.org/.../app_button.h

And for example a copy of that repos on github: github.com/.../TARGET_MCU_NRF51822

Thanks a lot!

[Asbjørn]

It looks like you have posted the same question on the mBED forum as well and gotten a reply from Eirik Midttun. That actually sums it up quite well. developer.mbed.org/.../

The SDK license agreement can be found here.

[Anne van Rossum]

Hi Asbjørn, I don't know if Eirik Midttun is actually a Nordic employee, so it is difficult for me to assess his/her answer.

I understood "non-transferable use of information" as not being allowed to transfer this information (header file or source file). I think that I know understand that it can be freely copied as long as it is used in combination with licensed Nordic products and it doesn't transfer to other non-Nordic products.

The only thing that is weird then is the "preventing unauthorized access" clause, because if you put them online they are for everyone to grab.