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Codezero Microkernel v0.2 Release
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Copyright (C) 2007 - 2009 Bahadir Bilgehan Balban
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1.) What is Codezero?
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Codezero is an L4 microkernel that has been written from scratch. It targets
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embedded systems and its purpose is to act as a secure embedded hypervisor. It
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aims to become the most modern L4 implementation by evolving the L4 microkernel
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API into the future. In a nutshell, Codezero provides all the basic mechanism
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to abstract away the hardware, build OS services, isolate applications and
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fine-grain security in a single package.
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2.) Why the name Codezero?
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The project philosophy is to create the simplest and leanest microkernel that
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is generic and applicable to many different applications. Feature creep is what
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we don't have in Codezero. Simple, elegant design is the project philosophy.
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3.) Why use Codezero?
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Codezero aims to be technically cutting-edge. It's design is open and improves
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by evolution. It is also easy-to-use, well-documented and portable, mostly
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maturing on the ARM architecture. These might be the appealing reasons from a
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technical point-of-view. It is also backed by a responsive team, in case you
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have more demanding requirements.
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4.) What is the license?
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The current release is distributed under GNU General Public License Version 3.
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For contributions we ask for a copyright share agreement and you may freely
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contribute to the project this way. We also have commercial licensing options
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available. This is our current model for keeping the project design and
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development completely open, while thriving it by professional funding. If you
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feel this is too restrictive, feel free to mention your ideas in our mailing
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list.
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The third party source code under the directories loader/ tools/ libs/c
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libs/elf have their own copyright and licenses, separate from this project. All
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third party source code is open source in the OSI definition. Please check
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these directories for their respective licenses.
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