License

The hdl-registers project is released under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License. This is a very permissive license, which means that hdl-registers components can be incorporated in commercial products. See the license text below for details:

Copyright (c) Lukas Vik All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Citation

If you want to cite this open-source software project, the following BibTeX can be used.

@misc{hdl-registers,
  author = {Vik, Lukas},
  title  = {{hdl-registers: An open-source HDL register interface code generator fast enough to run in real time}},
  url    = {https://hdl-registers.com},
}

License of generated code

The code that you generate with this tool is your own property. You are free to use/distribute/license it however you want.