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The friendly Operating System for IoT!

RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports a range of
devices that are typically found in the Internet of Things (IoT): 
8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers.

RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, real-time
capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access,
independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers partial POSIX
compliance).

RIOT is developed by an international open source community which is
independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community).
RIOT is licensed with LGPLv2.1, a copyleft license which fosters
indirect business models around the free open-source software platform
provided by RIOT, e.g. it is possible to link closed-source code with the
LGPL code.

## FEATURES

RIOT is based on a microkernel architecture, and provides features including,
but not limited to:

* a preemptive, tickless scheduler with priorities
* flexible memory management
* high resolution, long-term timers
* support for AVR, MSP430, MIPS, ARM7, and ARM Cortex-M on over 80 boards
* the native port allows to run RIOT as-is on Linux, BSD, and MacOS. Multiple
  instances of RIOT running on a single machine can also be interconnected via
  a simple virtual Ethernet bridge
* IPv6
* 6LoWPAN (RFC4944, RFC6282, and RFC6775)
* UDP
* RPL (storing mode, P2P mode)
* CoAP
* CCN-Lite


## GETTING STARTED
* You want to start the RIOT? Just follow our [quickstart guide](http://doc.riot-os.org/index.html#the-quickest-start) or the [getting started documentation](http://doc.riot-os.org/getting-started.html).
* The RIOT API itself can be built from the code using doxygen. The latest
  version is uploaded daily to http://riot-os.org/api.

### USING THE NATIVE PORT WITH NETWORKING
If you compile RIOT for the native cpu and include the `netdev_tap` module,
you can specify a network interface like this: `PORT=tap0 make term`

#### SETTING UP A TAP NETWORK
There is a shellscript in `RIOT/dist/tools/tapsetup` called `tapsetup` which
you can use to create a network of tap interfaces.

*USAGE*
To create a bridge and two (or count at your option) tap interfaces:

    ./dist/tools/tapsetup/tapsetup [-c [<count>]]

## CONTRIBUTE

To contribute something to RIOT, please refer to the [development
procedures](https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Development-procedures) and
read all notes for best practice.

## MAILING LISTS
* RIOT OS kernel developers list
 * devel@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel)
* RIOT OS users list
 * users@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/users)
* RIOT commits
 * commits@riot-os.org (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/commits)
* Github notifications
 * notifications@riot-os.org
   (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/notifications)

## LICENSE
* Most of the code developed by the RIOT community is licensed under the GNU
  Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 as published by the Free
  Software Foundation.
* Some external sources, especially files developed by SICS are published under
  a separate license.

All code files contain licensing information.

For more information, see the RIOT website:

http://www.riot-os.org