The original board startup script is provided by Atmel.
It has been modified to handle application or DFU booting.
The copyright notice has been updated to reflect this change.
Using the USBDFU_OverrideEnterDFU() function, a board/application can
define extra conditions when the system should boot in DFU mode, even if
it was not explicitly switched to DFU mode from the application.
The app/dfu/main.c uses this mechanism to boot into DFU mode if the
stack + reset vector addresses are not plausible (i.e. some random junk
appears to be flashed in the application partition) or if the user
places a jumper accross the RxD+TxD lines of the debug UART. The idea
is that the system can be recovered by placing this jumper and then
re-installing the application from DFU.
It is utterly unacceptable that Atmel is shipping example code in 2011,
which doesn't support parts that are shipped still in 2016. They would
have had five years to fix their code to implement the chip errata :(
This way we can easily check with 'diff' for differences in our code and
Atmel softpack. Also, this layout is more suitable for building various
different firmware images (e.g. factory-test, dfu-loader, main
application) for a variety of different boards (simtrace, owhw, qmod).