Licensing Requirements on RTEMS Poorly Discussed

[Gedare Bloom]

I'm willing, but time is limited for me. Feel free to assign a ticket
to me. I'm not sure it should be a blocker per se, but it is certainly
important

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:53 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I know we are all struggling to get a release out but I just noticed that the
> discussion of licensing for code/docs in RTEMS is a bit of a mess right now.
> I am close to filing this as a blocker ticket due to its importance.
>
> SW Engineering Guide sections 6.3.1.2 (Licenses) and 11 (Licensing Requirements) are somewhat overlapping and duplicative. In addition, Gedare's old blog http://gedare-csphd.blogspot.com/2013/05/software-licenses-with-rtems.html is still a decent discussion of the underlying issues and goals even though we have moved to BSD-2 and Creative Commons for documentation since he wrote that in 2013.
>
> I **THINK** a good solution would be to reference the Chapter 11 Licensing Requirements from the Coding Conventions chapter. And incorporate an updated version of Gedare's blog text.
>
> I still don't think that either shows folks what to actually put in their code.
>
> Hint: Gedare... I think you would be in the best position to merge the 2 sections with an updated version of your blog. :)
>
> Comments?
>
> --joel
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