The licensed technology is explained in more detail here. Included are reference implementations and specifications of
Device Interconnect Protocol DIP
Resource Manager
Stub generator:
The reference implementations are portable C code that have been verified in Linux. The following diagram describes the licensed technology in a device context.
The reference implementation under GNU GPL v2 license is availabe from the downloads section.
The exact same reference implementation is available as well under a commercial, royalty-free license. The commercial license is offered to those parties that are planning to use NoTA technology commercially, and that do not want to include GPL v2 code into their products.
The commercial license is royalty free and comes without any upfront fees, and is available to all interested parties. If you would be interested in the commercial license, please see contact details from the contacts section.
The dual licensing scheme provides very easy access to the NoTA technology, but it may raise questions about fragmenting the two versions.
In case of bug fixes and other minor updates in the future, always the same version of the reference implementation will be available under both licenses. We think that is a great benefit to both the open source users and industry players are having.
We hope that a lively ecosystem would grow around NoTA architecture and DIP technology including developer communities, academia, R&D service companies and semiconductor and product industry. We are looking also for a new collaborative R&D based on open, non-differentiation device architecture.
