nRF Connect SDK licenses

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How do the licenses affect the possible usage of the SDK in company products? 
 At least:these: 
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-BSD-5-Clause-Nordic * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Nordic-5-Clause * SPDX-License-Identifier: Nordic-5-Clause 
 Would be nice to know about the whole SDK, if possible. The different licenses I found, are: 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later * Copyright (c) 2010 - 2021, Nordic Semiconductor ASA All rights reserved.SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-NetBSD * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause * SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-3.0 * SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-BSD-5-Clause-Nordic * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Nordic-5-Clause * SPDX-License-Identifier: Nordic-5-Clause * SPDX-License-Identifier: SHL-0.51 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Zlib # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 # SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT /* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC */ /* SPDX-License-Identifier: Xnet */

user106736 · Accepted Answer

Hi 
 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

nRF Connect SDK licenses

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