On 21/7/21 5:34 pm, Christian MAUDERER wrote: > 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 ;-)
I am OK with this. >> 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. You know this but I do not. We need a simple way to handle this. > 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. Yes we need a donate page but that is a separate topic. > > 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 > Yes. Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
