Purpose of _Copyright_Notice?

[Joel Sherrill]

The original intent wasn't as much a copyright notice as to just
leave some breadcrumb the system was based on RTEMS. I don't
know that even when it was introduced, there was any guarantee
it would be there.

Any ideas on how to leave a string that says "RTEMS is here"?

--joel

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:22 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> there is a constant _Copyright_Notice declared in <rtems/system.h> and
> defined in exinit.c:
>
> const char _Copyright_Notice[] =
> "COPYRIGHT (c) 1989-2008.\n\
> On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).\n";
>
> This copyright notice is out of date and incomplete. Since it is not
> referenced by the system, it is also garbage collected by the linker.
> There is no API to access this constant.
>
> If we want to keep this constant, then we should add an API for it, add
> it to a linker set which is not garbage collected, and bring the notice
> up to date. I am in favor of removing it completely. The BSD license
> mandates only that the copyright notice must be reproduced in
> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution:
>
> "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."
>
> There is no obligation to reproduce copyright notices in the binary.
>
> For GPL software the copyright in a binary is also not necessary. It is
> simply not enough, you have to provide the sources of the binary.
>
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