<div dir="ltr">The original intent wasn't as much a copyright notice as to just <div>leave some breadcrumb the system was based on RTEMS. I don't</div><div>know that even when it was introduced, there was any guarantee</div><div>it would be there.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas on how to leave a string that says "RTEMS is here"?</div><div><br></div><div>--joel</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:22 AM Sebastian Huber <<a href="mailto:sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de">sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
there is a constant _Copyright_Notice declared in <rtems/system.h> and <br>
defined in exinit.c:<br>
<br>
const char _Copyright_Notice[] =<br>
"COPYRIGHT (c) 1989-2008.\n\<br>
On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).\n";<br>
<br>
This copyright notice is out of date and incomplete. Since it is not <br>
referenced by the system, it is also garbage collected by the linker. <br>
There is no API to access this constant.<br>
<br>
If we want to keep this constant, then we should add an API for it, add <br>
it to a linker set which is not garbage collected, and bring the notice <br>
up to date. I am in favor of removing it completely. The BSD license <br>
mandates only that the copyright notice must be reproduced in <br>
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution:<br>
<br>
"2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright<br>
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the<br>
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."<br>
<br>
There is no obligation to reproduce copyright notices in the binary.<br>
<br>
For GPL software the copyright in a binary is also not necessary. It is <br>
simply not enough, you have to provide the sources of the binary.<br>
<br>
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