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From: John R.
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Evan Lavelle wrote: > If you go to > > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp > > you can download any of the Architecture Reference Manuals without > entering into a licence agreement. I've just downloaded the two Cortex > ARMs without problems; the only mention of the word 'license' in these > documents is the standard paragraph: > > >>This document is Non-Confidential. The right to use, copy and disclose this >>document may be subject tolicense restrictions in accordance with the terms >>of the agreement entered into by ARM and the party that ARM delivered this >>document to. > > > No download agreement, so no restrictions. Please give the literal URL from which you downloaded with no restrictions. Your claim "no agreement" cannot be verified yet. When I navigated that .jsp site, I got to http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM_Cortex-M3_v7.html which is an agreement protecting access to a .pdf. The agreement says: ARMv7-M Architecture Documentation – licence terms 1. Subject to the provisions set out below, ARM hereby grants to you a perpetual, non-exclusive, nontransferable, royalty free, worldwide licence to use this ARM Architecture Reference Manual for the purposes of developing; (i) software applications or operating systems which are targeted to run on microprocessor cores distributed under licence from ARM; (ii) tools which are designed to develop software programs which are targeted to run on microprocessor cores distributed under licence from ARM; (iii) or having developed integrated circuits which incorporate a microprocessor core manufactured under licence from ARM. Although those terms seem to be somewhat loose on their face, it is still an agreement. To get to the .pdf, apparently you must agree, and give identifying information. So your claim "no download agreement" has not been verified. -- |