 yaffs gpl licence yaffs gpl licence laurie 10 july 2006 135pm yaffs is the property of aleph one limited yaffs is available free of charge under the gnu general public licence   version 2 gpl linking yaffs to other software creates a derived work and our interpretation of linking includes dynamic and runtime linking any use of yaffs creates a derived work under the gpl you can test yaffs with your product on your computers do not distribute this test version unless your product is normally licensed under the gpl if you do not copy and distribute it there are no requirement under the gpl regarding distribution of a derived work under the terms of the gpl derived works must be licensed using the gpl unless you have a commercial licence for yaffs when you distribute gpled object code you must make the full source code available too to anyone who uses your product sections 3a and 3b of the gpl and the sections that follow circumstances where you need to licence yaffs other than under the gpl include if you want to use yaffs but want to distribute your code under your licence if you want to run a staticallylinked commercial rtos on top of a yaffs filesystem if you want to sublicence yaffs to your customers under terms other than the gpl if you want to use yaffs with windowsce version 4 wince version 3 can use gpl code but wince v4 and later need an additional filesystem interface layer which is not part of yaffs this is available at extra cost please contact us in these cases our commercial licence is appropriate if you aren t sure whether your needs will be covered by the gpl version  get in touch with us  support while yaffs is released under gpl we can provide standard support options consulting in its application to your particular product or development of specific features to suit your needs or hardware  helping us to improve yaffs although the code is downloadable at no charge buying this product allows you to express your appreciation of yaffs alternatively you can make a donation to aleph one ltd via paypal you can do this at paypal by sending any sum to sales aleph1couk  we shall appreciate it  