Merge pull request #1 from CHERIoT-Platform/add_license

Add SCISemi license file.

Author: ColinDBates

LICENSE.SCISemi

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+Solderpad Hardware License v2.1
+
+This license operates as a wraparound license to the Apache License Version 2.0
+(the "Apache License") and incorporates the terms and conditions of the Apache
+License (which can be found here: http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), with
+the following additions and modifications. It must be read in conjunction with
+the Apache License. Section 1 below modifies definitions and terminology in the
+Apache License and Section 2 below replaces Section 2 of the Apache License. The
+Appendix replaces the Appendix in the Apache License. You may, at your option,
+choose to treat any Work released under this license as released under the
+Apache License (thus ignoring all sections written below entirely).
+
+1. Terminology in the Apache License is supplemented or modified as follows: 
+
+"Authorship": any reference to 'authorship' shall be taken to read "authorship
+or design". 
+
+"Copyright owner": any reference to 'copyright owner' shall be taken to read
+"Rights owner". 
+
+"Copyright statement": the reference to'copyright statement' shall be taken to
+read 'copyright or other statement pertaining to Rights'.
+
+The following new definition shall be added to the Definitions section of the
+Apache License: 
+
+"Rights" means copyright and any similar right including design right (whether
+registered or unregistered), rights in semiconductor topographies (mask works)
+and database rights (but excluding Patents and Trademarks).
+
+The following definitions shall replace the corresponding definitions in the
+Apache License: 
+
+"License" shall mean this Solderpad Hardware License version 2.1, being the
+terms and conditions for use, manufacture, instantiation, adaptation,
+reproduction, and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this
+document.
+
+"Licensor" shall mean the owner of the Rights or entity authorized by the owner
+of the Rights that is granting the License.
+
+"Derivative Works" shall mean any work, whether in Source or Object form, that
+is based on (or derived from) the Work and for which the editorial revisions,
+annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an
+original work of authorship or design. For the purposes of this License,
+Derivative Works shall not include works that remain reversibly separable from,
+or merely link (or bind by name) or physically connect to or interoperate with
+the Work and Derivative Works thereof.
+
+"Object" form shall mean any form resulting from mechanical transformation or
+translation of a Source form or the application of a Source form to physical
+material, including but not limited to compiled object code, generated
+documentation, the instantiation of a hardware design or physical object or
+material and conversions to other media types, including intermediate forms such
+as bytecodes, FPGA bitstreams, moulds, artwork and semiconductor topographies
+(mask works).
+
+"Source" form shall mean the preferred form for making modifications, including
+but not limited to source code, net lists, board layouts, CAD files,
+documentation source, and configuration files.
+
+"Work" shall mean the work of authorship or design, whether in Source or Object
+form, made available under the License, as indicated by a notice relating to
+Rights that is included in or attached to the work (an example is provided in
+the Appendix below). 
+
+2. Grant of License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
+License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide,
+non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license under the Rights to
+reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, make, adapt, repair, publicly display,
+publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works
+in Source or Object form and do anything in relation to the Work as if the
+Rights did not exist. 
+
+APPENDIX
+
+Copyright 2025 SCI Semiconductor
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH SHL-2.1 
+
+Licensed under the Solderpad Hardware License v 2.1 (the "License"); you may not
+use this file except in compliance with the License, or, at your option, the
+Apache License version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at 
+
+https://solderpad.org/licenses/SHL-2.1/
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, any work distributed
+under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.