Licenses

This document enumerates the components provided by BlocksDS and their licenses. This is useful if you want to release a binary built with BlocksDS and you aren’t sure about what copyright notices you need to add.

dswifi

This is used in the default ARM7 binary.

MIT license. Copyright notice required:

Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Stephen Stair - sgstair@akkit.org

libnds

This is used in all programs that use the default crts, ARM7 binary, etc.

Zlib license. No copyright notice required in binary distributions.

FatFs uses a custom BSD/MIT/ISC-like license that doesn’t require attribution in binary files either.

Some files (picolib) module are licensed under the BSD-3-Clause. Copyright notice required:

Copyright © 2019-2022 Keith Packard

libxm7

This is only used if the user explicitly links it.

MIT license. Copyright notice required:

Copyright (C) 2018 sverx

maxmod

This is used in the default ARM7 binary.

ISC license. Copyright notice required:

Copyright (c) 2008, Mukunda Johnson (mukunda@maxmod.org)

picolibc

This is always used unless you tell the compiler to not link libc at all.

Take a look at COPYING.picolibc in the picolibc folder.

libstdc++

This is used in any C++ program or program that is linked with a C++ library.

It uses license GPL 3.0 with an exception for any program compiled with GCC. That means that, as long as you use GCC as your compiler, you can license your compiled application under any license you want, or make it closed source. If you use any other compiler, you need to license your application under the GPL 3.0.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html

crts

This is always used unless the user selects different ones.

Mozilla Public License v2.0. No copyright notice required.

default_arm7

This is used in any project that doesn’t include source code for an ARM7 binary.

Zlib license. No copyright notice required in binary distributions.