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This is the full text of the RouteRTL Core License 1.0. It covers the RouteRTL compiled core from release 5.1.0. The open shell (CLI, build system, cocotb drivers, documentation, examples) is under the MIT License. Releases before 5.1.0 remain under the PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0 they were published with.

See commercial use and licensing for a summary, and pricing for commercial licences.

RouteRTL Core License 1.0

https://routertl.dev/legal/core-license/1.0

Acceptance

In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all your licenses.

Copyright License

The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright in it for any permitted purpose. However, you may only distribute the software according to Distribution License and make changes or new works based on the software according to Changes and New Works License.

Distribution License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to distribute copies of the software. Your license to distribute covers distributing the software with changes and new works permitted by Changes and New Works License.

Notices

You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of the software from you also gets a copy of these terms or the URL for them above, as well as copies of any plain-text lines beginning with Required Notice: that the licensor provided with the software. For example:

Required Notice: Copyright 2024-2026 Daniel J. Mazure (https://routertl.dev)

Changes and New Works License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to make changes and new works based on the software for any permitted purpose.

Patent License

The licensor grants you a patent license for the software that covers patent claims the licensor can license, or becomes able to license, that you would infringe by using the software.

Fair Use

You may have "fair use" rights for the software under the law. These terms do not limit them.

Evaluation

Use of the software to evaluate whether it fits your needs, or your company's needs, is use for a permitted purpose for 30 days. For use for the benefit of your company, the 30 days start on the first day anyone uses the software for the benefit of your company, and they run once for your company. For any other use, they start on the first day you use the software. The 30 days do not start again for a new version of the software or for a new individual.

Registered Individuals

After the evaluation, use of the software by an individual for that individual's own benefit, and not for the benefit of any organization, is use for a permitted purpose if that individual has registered with the licensor and the registration is current.

Academic Use

Use of the software under a current RouteRTL Academic License 1.0 registration issued by the licensor is use for a permitted purpose, within the scope of that license.

Open Hardware Projects

Use of the software to develop, build or verify a hardware design is use for a permitted purpose if the sources of that design are available to anyone, free of charge, under an open license. This covers that project only, not other use for the benefit of the organization that runs it. An open license is a license that allows anyone to use, study, change and distribute the design, such as a CERN Open Hardware Licence or an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative.

Commercial License

Use of the software for the benefit of an organization, of any size, after the evaluation is use for a permitted purpose only under a current commercial license from the licensor, except as Academic Use and Open Hardware Projects allow. The licensor offers commercial licenses at https://routertl.dev/pricing.

Licensed Features

Features that the software enables only with an entitlement key issued by the licensor are licensed only under the terms on which the licensor issued that key: an evaluation, a commercial license or an academic registration. A registration under Registered Individuals does not license them. You may not remove, disable or work around the check for an entitlement key, or the marking that the software adds to its output.

Noncompete

Use of the software to provide any product that competes with the software, or with any product the licensor or any of its affiliates provides using the software, is not use for a permitted purpose.

Competition

Goods and services compete even when they provide functionality through different kinds of interfaces or for different technical platforms. Applications can compete with services, libraries with plugins, frameworks with development tools, and so on, even if they're written in different programming languages or for different computer architectures. Goods and services compete even when provided free of charge. If you market a product as a practical substitute for the software or another product, it definitely competes.

New Products

If you are using the software to provide a product that does not compete, but the licensor or any of its affiliates brings your product into competition by providing a new version of the software or another product using the software, you may continue using versions of the software available under these terms beforehand to provide your competing product, but not any later versions.

Discontinued Products

You may begin using the software to compete with a product or service that the licensor or any of its affiliates has stopped providing, unless the licensor includes a plain-text line beginning with Licensor Line of Business: with the software that mentions that line of business. For example:

Licensor Line of Business: RouteRTL FPGA SDK (https://routertl.dev)

Sales of Business

If the licensor or any of its affiliates sells a line of business developing the software or using the software to provide a product, the buyer can also enforce Noncompete for that product.

No Other Rights

These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of your licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor from granting licenses to anyone else. These terms do not imply any other licenses.

Patent Defense

If you make any written claim that the software infringes or contributes to infringement of any patent, your patent license for the software granted under these terms ends immediately. If your company makes such a claim, your patent license ends immediately for work on behalf of your company.

Violations

The first time you are notified in writing that you have violated any of these terms, or done anything with the software not covered by your licenses, your licenses can nonetheless continue if you come into full compliance with these terms, and take practical steps to correct past violations, within 32 days of receiving notice. Otherwise, all your licenses end immediately.

No Liability

As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the law of Switzerland. The place of jurisdiction is Zurich, Switzerland, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.

Definitions

The licensor is Daniel J. Mazure, Zurich, Switzerland, and the software is the software the licensor makes available under these terms.

A product can be a good or service, or a combination of them.

You refers to the individual or entity agreeing to these terms.

An organization is any legal entity, sole proprietorship, partnership, public body, or other kind of organization, whether or not it is for profit.

Your company is any organization that you work for, plus all its affiliates.

Affiliates means the other organizations that an organization has control over, is under the control of, or is under common control with.

Control means ownership of substantially all the assets of an entity, or the power to direct its management and policies by vote, contract, or otherwise. Control can be direct or indirect.

To register means to create an account with the licensor under a verified email address, as the licensor describes at https://routertl.dev/pricing. Registration is free of charge.

An entitlement key is a signed token the licensor issues that the software reads to enable features.

Your licenses are all the licenses granted to you for the software under these terms.

Use means anything you do with the software requiring one of your licenses.

Licensor Line of Business: RouteRTL FPGA SDK (https://routertl.dev)