nRF Connect SDK licenses

RE: nRF Connect SDK licenses

Sigurd Hellesvik — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:35:12 GMT

"LicenseRef-BSD-5-Clause-Nordic" is an error - a misprint. The correct reference should be "LicenseRef-Nordic-5-Clause".

Thank you for reporting this. I have reported it to our developers, and it will hopefully be corrected in a future release of the nRF Connect SDK.

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

RE: nRF Connect SDK licenses

turboscrew — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:54:47 GMT

It's the same as 5-Clause Nordic License?

RE: nRF Connect SDK licenses

turboscrew — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:37:56 GMT

What's this?

.../v1.9.1/bootloader/mcuboot/ext/nrf/cc310_glue.c: * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-BSD-5-Clause-Nordic

RE: nRF Connect SDK licenses

Sigurd Hellesvik — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:56:03 GMT

For what the licenses entails, refer to the licenses themselves. I am not able to give you legal advise on how to use them.

However, here are some potentially useful links on the Topic:

Introducing Nordic’s new software licensing schemes

Zephyrs Contribution Guidelines

About the nRF Connect SDK license

Software bill of materials: west spdx
("west spdx" does not work in the current nRF Connect SDK I think. But you should be able to fix it using the following change.

diff --git a/scripts/west_commands/zspdx/writer.py b/scripts/west_commands/zspdx/writer.py
index f357acf180..7ffa9d1bac 100644                                                       
--- a/scripts/west_commands/zspdx/writer.py                                               
+++ b/scripts/west_commands/zspdx/writer.py                                               
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Created: {datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")}           
                                                                                          
     # write other license info, if any                                                   
     if len(doc.customLicenseIDs) > 0:                                                    
-        for lic in list(doc.customLicenseIDs).sort():                                    
+        for lic in sorted(list(doc.customLicenseIDs)):                                   
             writeOtherLicenseSPDX(f, lic)

)

I hope this might help

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik