License and copyright of specification items

[Joel Sherrill]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 4:05 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 22/11/2019 14:32, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > some specification items may contain copyrightable information. Doorstop
> > removes all comments from YAML files. So, my proposal is to add two
> > attributes to every specification item:
> >
> > 1.
> >
> > license: 'SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR CC-BY-SA-4.0'
> >
> > This allows the use of content from specification items as source code
> > and documentation input.
> >
> > 2.
> >
> > copyrights:
> > - 'Copyright (C) 2019 John Doe'
>
> I think we have a consensus to use a dual-licensing for the
> specification items. Should we add this
>
> license: 'SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR CC-BY-SA-4.0'
>
> attribute to every item to make it self-contained, or should we just add a
>
> spec/COPYING
>
> file (see attached proposal).
>
> Each item should have individual "copyrights" attributes which list the
> copyright holders of this item.
>

I lean to repeated in each file because it makes it more explicit.

I also lean this way based on the assumption that tools which process SPDX
tags will produce better reports if every file has annotations. This may be
an incorrect assumption.

--joel

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