From 2945479041f6f8df828f81f91de88d4271e0d588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Cercueil Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:00:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify licenses, round 2 Rewrite a part of the README.md which said that the tests and examples were licensed under the GPL, while it is not the case. Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4261d9db7..3b5326bca 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Library for interfacing with Linux IIO devices libiio is used to interface to the Linux Industrial Input/Output (IIO) Subsystem. The Linux IIO subsystem is intended to provide support for devices that in some sense are analog to digital or digital to analog converters (ADCs, DACs). This includes, but is not limited to ADCs, Accelerometers, Gyros, IMUs, Capacitance to Digital Converters (CDCs), Pressure Sensors, Color, Light and Proximity Sensors, Temperature Sensors, Magnetometers, DACs, DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis), PLLs (Phase Locked Loops), Variable/Programmable Gain Amplifiers (VGA, PGA), and RF transceivers. You can use libiio natively on an embedded Linux target (local mode), or use libiio to communicate remotely to that same target from a host Linux, Windows or MAC over USB or Ethernet or Serial. -Although libiio was primarily developed by Analog Devices Inc., it is an active open source library, which many people have contributed to. The library is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or (at your option) any later version, this open-source license allows anyone to use the library, on any vendors processor/FPGA/SoC, which may be controlling any vendors peripheral device (ADC, DAC, etc) either locally or remotely. This includes closed or open-source, commercial or non-commercial applications (subject to the LGPL license freedoms, obligations and restrictions). The examples and test applications (sometimes referred to as the iio-utils) are released separately under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.0 (at your option) any later version. +Although libiio was primarily developed by Analog Devices Inc., it is an active open source library, which many people have contributed to. The library is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or (at your option) any later version. This open-source license allows anyone to use the library, on any vendors processor/FPGA/SoC, which may be controlling any vendors peripheral device (ADC, DAC, etc) either locally or remotely. This includes closed or open-source, commercial or non-commercial applications (subject to the LGPL license freedoms, obligations and restrictions). Library/Tests/Examples/IIOD License : [![Libiio License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-LGPL2+-blue.svg)](https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio/blob/master/COPYING.txt) Latest Release : [![GitHub release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/analogdevicesinc/libiio.svg)](https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio/releases/latest)