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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+
+.. Copyright (C) 2020 embedded brains GmbH
+.. Copyright (C) 2015 Chris Johns
+.. Copyright (C) 1988, 2008 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)
+
+RTEMS Project Mission Statement
+*******************************
+
+RTEMS development done under the umbrella of the RTEMS Project aims to provide a
+free and open real-time operating system targeted towards deeply embedded
+systems which is competitive with proprietary products.  The RTEMS Project
+encourages the support and use of standard APIs in order to promote application
+portability and ease porting other packages to the RTEMS environment.
+
+The RTEMS development effort uses an open development environment in which all
+users collaborate to improve RTEMS. The RTEMS cross development tool suite is
+based upon the free GNU tools and the open source standard C library newlib.
+RTEMS supports many host platforms and target architectures.
+
+Free Software Project
+=====================
+
+The free software goals of the project are:
+
+* RTEMS and supporting components are available under various free licenses with
+  copyrights being held by individual authors.
+
+* All software which executes on the target will not place undue restrictions on
+  embedded applications.  See also :ref:`LicensingRequirements`.
+
+* Patches must be legally acceptable for inclusion into the RTEMS Project or the
+  specific project being used.
+
+Design and Development Goals
+============================
+
+* Source based development with all users building from source
+
+* Any suitable host should be supported
+
+* Open testing, tests and test results
+
+* Ports to new architectures and CPU models
+
+* Addition of Board Support Packages for available hardware
+
+* Improved runtime libraries
+
+* Faster debug cycle
+
+* Various other infrastructure improvements
+
+Open Development Environment
+============================
+
+* Encourage cooperation and communication between developers
+
+* Work more closely with "consumers"
+
+* Code available to everyone at any time, and everyone is welcome to participate
+  in development
+
+* Patches will be considered equally based on their technical merits
+
+* All individuals and companies are welcome to contribute as long as they accept
+  the ground rules
+
+* Open mailing lists
+
+* Developer friendly tools and procedures with a focus on keeping them current
+
+* Conflicts of interest exist for many RTEMS developers. The developers
+  contributing to the RTEMS Project must put the interests of the RTEMS Project
+  first.