XMOS Open Source Manifesto

XMOS intentions

XMOS is a semiconductor company that is in the business of selling great chips and the more the better. XMOS is supporting a collaborative open source community to enable more people to benefit from its great technology. We know that there is a wealth of talent in the community that can make this happen in open source projects, entrepreneurial endeavors and commercial companies. Whilst we must protect our core technology, XMOS is committed to openness in tools, software and board designs.

Where appropriate we are contributing to already existing open source projects. XMOS is also sponsoring the XCore Open Source Project and a global partnership of free software community members by offering stewardship, intellectual property and enabling technology. Our objective is to provide a foundation for the collaborative development of both todays tools and applications and those we have yet to dream of.

The open source technologies are developed under free and open source license from inception so anybody is free to study, adopt, modify commercialize and incorporate in commercial products. XMOS pledges:

• To be open about its intentions within the community and to collaborate
• To encourage our employees to participate and enable them to act as autonomous community members
• To abide by the rules of the community
• To provide its contributions under licenses derived from the NCSA/University of Illinois for software and hardware in accordance with community rules.
• To provide a community manager for the time being
• To provide employees as maintainers for existing designs for the time being

XMOS will also provide access to hardware infrastructure for build and test systems when required.