New content for COPYING file in RTEMS?

[Chris Johns]

On 23/11/18 5:45 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the COPYING file in RTEMS is currently just the GPLv2 license text:
> 
> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/COPYING
> 
> I propose to replace this with a content similar to theCOPYING.NEWLIB file in
> Newlib:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.NEWLIB;h=7242a44acac981e29469441dcb40b22803bf2d2b;hb=HEAD
> 
> 
> This file can then be used to meet this BSD-2 license requirement:
> 
> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> 
> It can be used to document which contributors agreed to the license change from
> RTEMS GPL to BSD-2-Clause.

+1

Chris