On 20/04/2020 18:51, Joel Sherrill wrote:
Hi
I know we are all struggling to get a release out but I just noticed
that the
discussion of licensing for code/docs in RTEMS is a bit of a mess
right now.
I am close to filing this as a blocker ticket due to its importance.
SW Engineering Guide sections 6.3.1.2 (Licenses) and 11 (Licensing
Requirements) are somewhat overlapping and duplicative. In addition,
Gedare's old blog
http://gedare-csphd.blogspot.com/2013/05/software-licenses-with-rtems.html is
still a decent discussion of the underlying issues and goals even
though we have moved to BSD-2 and Creative Commons for documentation
since he wrote that in 2013.
I **THINK** a good solution would be to reference the Chapter 11
Licensing Requirements from the Coding Conventions chapter. And
incorporate an updated version of Gedare's blog text.
I still don't think that either shows folks what to actually put in
their code.
Hint: Gedare... I think you would be in the best position to merge the
2 sections with an updated version of your blog. :)
Comments?
Yes, this needs to be fixed, however, it is not release critical from my
point of view. This stuff is important for new contributors and they
should focus on the master.
There is also:
https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/eng/coding-file-hdr.html#copyright-and-license-block
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