Am 21.07.21 um 09:34 schrieb Christian MAUDERER:
Hello Chris,
Am 21.07.21 um 09:22 schrieb Chris Johns:
On 21/7/21 5:05 pm, Christian MAUDERER wrote:
Hello,
I don't object to clear rules. At the moment it's a bit of a mix.
Yes I understand and I think the line you posted in the patch is fine
as is, it
just needs to be separate from the license text because it could taint
it and we
need to avoid that.
Some examples
of what I have found (mainly in PowerPC):
Above the copyright line:
https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/powerpc/ss555/start/vectors.S
https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/powerpc/ss555/start/vectors_init.c
https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/powerpc/ss555/start/irq.c
https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/powerpc/include/libcpu/irq.h
Yes there are some legacy comments. I would not touch those. We are more
informed on how we handle these things these days.
Mixed in the header somewhere:
https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/powerpc/ss555/start/bspstart.c
Am 21.07.21 um 07:51 schrieb Sebastian Huber:
On 21/07/2021 02:46, Chris Johns wrote:
On 21/7/21 6:47 am, Gedare Bloom wrote:
This seems fine to me. We don't have any standard way to document
this
kind of attribution. However, we have had individual authors add
their
names below their company's copyright. It might make sense to put the
sponsorship part beneath the copyright of the sponsored
company/person?
Make sense. The copyright block should be limited to just
copyrights and sponsor
acknowledgements should in a separate block, maybe after the
license block.
Yes, I also think it should be outside the license comment block.
Not a big deal, but it might help for some kind of
consistent guidance if we do this more in the future.
I think we need some guidelines. I do not agree with URL links,
email addresses,
phone numbers or street addreses appearing in the source. I also
think a sponsor
acknowledgement is never updated or changed even if a company
changes name. What
I am not sure about is the areas of the source we allow this to
happen in, ie
score ...?
We could add some text here:
https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/eng/coding-file-hdr.html
Without discussing it with Onto: An alternative to attribution in the
code could
be an attribution page in the manuals where we can collect such
notes. That
would avoid scattering them throughout the code. It would also make
it easier to
(for example) attribute to supporters that maybe don't fund coding
but other
activities like infrastructure.
Sorry, collecting in a manual is a step to far and I would not support
it. Some
companies have tight marketing requirements and trademarks for
placement of
their company details in manuals or printed material and we need to
keep well
clear of this. There are sponsors of RTEMS who require nothing is
said, ever.
Yes. Most companies don't want to be mentioned. I was a bit surprised
that Onto asked for it ;-)
There is a legal aspect to this that I am not sure about yet. What
happens if a
company complains about the addition?
I would only add companies that ask for it. I think most paid projects
have some kind of contract where that could be clarified right from the
beginning. For sponsors without a project, it could be done with some
kind of "yes, I want to be added" field on a donation page. I assume
that's how other projects handle that kind of stuff.
One example for a project with a big supporters list:
https://metabrainz.org/supporters
The just added a "I would like the donation to be anonymous" to the
donate page:
https://metabrainz.org/donate
Best regards
Christian
PS: I assumed that adding it to the manual would be a bigger discussion
and I don't want to really open that can of worms for this case. It's
only a suggestion that we could think about something like that too.
It's not that uncommon for open source projects to collect supporters or
users somewhere.
Chris
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