Licensing Requirements on RTEMS Poorly Discussed

[Sebastian Huber]

On 20/04/2020 18:51, Joel Sherrill 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?

Yes, this needs to be fixed, however, it is not release critical from my 
point of view. This stuff is important for new contributors and they 
should focus on the master.

There is also:

https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/eng/coding-file-hdr.html#copyright-and-license-block