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The firmware on the CAN hardware dongles and the firmware reflash process make use of some 3rd party licensed software. As legally required, these are the incorporated licensed software items.

As a disclaimer, none of the authors of any of the referenced open-sourced software shall be held liable in the case of a product failure from SeRoSys Technology in case of any damages.

Licensed software used as a part of the process to conduct a firmware flash as executed from our Firmware flash software (SLSS Hardware Suite) are AVRDUDE, AVR-OBJCOPY and BOSSA. None of these are actually incorporated as a part of our software code and simply used as standalone tools in their original form and unmodified.

AVRDUDE

Used under GNU General Public License v2.0 https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/COPYING

BOSSA

Used under the BSD 3 Clause license. https://github.com/shumatech/BOSSA/blob/master/LICENSE

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AVR-OBJCOPY

Used under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/man/man1/avr-objcopy.1.html

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2. * Licensed libraries used as a part of our hardware dongle firmware:

SPI.H

Used under the GNU General Public License version 2 or the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1

https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/libraries/SPI/src/SPI.h

/*
* Copyright (c) 2010 by Cristian Maglie <c.maglie@arduino.cc>
* Copyright (c) 2014 by Paul Stoffregen <paul@pjrc.com> (Transaction API)
* Copyright (c) 2014 by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> (SPISettings AVR)
* Copyright (c) 2014 by Andrew J. Kroll <xxxajk@gmail.com> (atomicity fixes)
* SPI Master library for arduino.
*
* This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License version 2
* or the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, both as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/

MCP_CAN.H

Used under the GNU Lesser General Public License that incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions.

https://github.com/coryjfowler/MCP_CAN_lib/blob/master/license.txt

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