Thanks Hein, I appreciate the response. Unfortunately I really do need to find an answer to the licensing question specifically, since I’m not particularly comfortable with opening my project up to the GNU GPLv2.
When I made my original post I could not find the FreeRTOS+FAT license information web
page referenced by the license header of the 160919 release, so I was not able to confirm if my project could be licensed under the FreeRTOS Open Source License. I’ve since found
an archived copy of the FreeRTOS+FAT license page from 28 Oct 2017, which says that the following processor families can be used with the FreeRTOS Open Source License:
* Atmel SAM family
* Xilinx Zynq
* ST STM32 family
* NXP LPC family
Unfortunately my target does not fall within any of these categories so I really am stuck waiting for the MIT-licensed release to become available. Do I need to contact Richard Barry directly (as others seem to have done in the past) to receive a pre-release version of the FreeRTOS+FAT lab under the new licensing?
I’m happy to develop using the labs release and later update when the MIT-licensed source is publically available, but wouldn’t want to commit to using an API in the meantime that I can’t license, when said release has no publically-known schedule for completion.