Cyclone IV with PCIe transceiver and Linux GPL license

Hi,

There is a generic FAQ posted and please refer it if this can answer your question:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

This is a general Linux licensing inquiry and not really Intel FPGA related topics. At this point, we would like to suggest you refer back to the source where you get the kernel source tree.

As what you've mentioned in the descriptions, these specific code will only works on your design after adding in the out of tree code. But yet, when it come to production & release, it should have GPL compliance.

We would like to suggest you to handle this in detail and please work with yours company LEGAL at all time.

Thanks,

Joseph

Intel Customer Support