# Solderpad Hardware Licence Version 2.0

This licence (the “Licence”) operates as a wraparound licence to the Apache License Version 2.0 (the
“Apache License”) and grants to You the rights, and imposes the obligations, set out in the Apache
License (which can be found here: http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), with the following
extensions. It must be read in conjunction with the Apache License. Section 1 below modifies
definitions in the Apache License, and section 2 below replaces sections 2 of the Apache
License. You may, at your option, choose to treat any Work released under this License as released
under the Apache License (thus ignoring all sections written below entirely). Words in *italics*
indicate changes rom the Apache License, but are indicative and not to be taken into account in
interpretation.

1. The definitions set out in the Apache License are modified as follows:

**Copyright** any reference to ‘copyright’ (whether capitalised or not) includes ‘Rights’ (as
defined below).

**Contribution** also includes any *design*, as well as any work of authorship.

**Derivative Works** shall not include works that remain *reversibly* separable from, or merely link
(or bind by name) or *physically connect* to or *interoperate with* the interfaces of the Work and
Derivative Works thereof.

**Object** form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or translation of a
Source form or the application of a Source form to physical material, including but not limited to
compiled object code, generated documentation, the *instantiation* of a hardware design or physical
object* and conversions to other media types, *including intermediate forms such as bytecodes, FPGA
bitstreams, moulds, artwork and semiconductor topographies (mask works)*.

**Rights** means copyright and any similar right including design right (whether registered or
unregistered), semiconductor topography (mask) rights and database rights (but excluding Patents and
Trademarks).

**Source** form shall mean the preferred form for making modifications, including but not limited to
source code, *net lists, board layouts, CAD files*, documentation source, and configuration files.

**Work** also includes a *design* or work of authorship, whether in Source form or *other* Object
form.

2. Grant of Licence

2.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a
perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license *under the Rights*
to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, *make, adapt, repair,* publicly display, publicly perform,
sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form *and do
anything in relation to the Work as if the Rights did not exist*.
