MoSoS License

MoSoS was developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute with funding by the Packard Foundation. 
MoSoS uses TivaWare from Texas Instruments and FatFS from ChaN.  There is also code contributed by Scripps Institute of Oceanography.


The following code block shows a copy of the MoSoS license document that heading the source files.

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
/  MoSoS - MBARI Ocean Sensor Operating System  Vx.xx                         /
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
/
/ Copyright (C) 20xx, MBARI, all right reserved.
/
/ MoSoS is open source software. Redistribution and use of MoSoS in
/ source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided
/ that the following conditions are met:
/
/ 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
/    this condition and the following disclaimer.
/
/ 2. Acknowledge MBARI and the Packard Foundation in publications and products related
/    to the use of MoSoS and derived works.
/
/ This software is provided by the copyright holder and contributors "AS IS"
/ and any warranties related to this software are DISCLAIMED.
/ The copyright owner or contributors be NOT LIABLE for any damages caused
/ by use of this software.
/----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

The MoSoS license is a BSD-style license tuned for use for embedded systems. 
MoSoS is mainly intended for embedded systems. In order to extend the usability for commercial products, 
the redistributions of MoSoS in binary form, such as embedded code, binary library and any forms without source code, 
do not need to include license info in the human-machine interface of the embedded system. This is equivalent to the 1-clause BSD license. 
The open source license for MoSoS is compatible with several open source software licenses include GNU GPL. When you redistribute the MoSoS source code 
with changes or create a fork, the license can also be changed to GNU GPL, BSD-style license or any open source software 
license that does not conflict with MoSoS license.
