License and copyright of specification items

[Joel Sherrill]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:10 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 22/11/2019 14:51, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >     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 I am OK with this as long as we only accept requirements with
> > a single license type. We just need to pick a license. If we go to
> > BSD-2-Clause,
> > then we don't have to give credit in generated documents.
> >
> > For CC-BY-SA, I believe any generated document would have to give
> > credit to every entity with a copyright listed.
> >
> > If everyone agrees that is the primary practical difference between the
> > two licenses, I would prefer we require all to be BSD-2-Clause.
> >
> > But I am happy with the license and copyright being attributes
> > that are generally treated as comments.
>
> I would like to generate the API documentation (e.g. the stuff in the
> "Directive" sections) in the RTEMS Classic API Guide from specification
> items. During this process documentation content will move from
> documentation *.rst files (CC-BY-SA license) to *.yml files in the RTEMS
> sources repository.  The content will flow back to the RTEMS
> documentation repository to *.rst files with the help of a generator
> program. The API header files with Doxygen markup can also be generated.
> This is why I would like to dual-license the *.yml files.
>

Wouldn't the BSD-2-Clause then be sufficient to do all that?


>
> This would be a re-licensing of parts of the documentation.
>
> If we solely use the BSD-2-Clause license, then we need a BSD-2-Clause
> copyright information in the documents.
>

Your right. I must not be awake this morning. They are basically equivalent.

--joel

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