ISBN: | 978-5-5125-6986-3 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for embedded devices, being ported to several microcontrollers. It is distributed under the GPL with an optional exception. The exception permits users` proprietary code to remain closed source while maintaining the kernel itself as open source, thereby facilitating the use of FreeRTOS in proprietary applications.