Purpose of _Copyright_Notice?

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Tue May 5 12:45:26 UTC 2020


On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:43 AM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 05/05/2020 14:37, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Maybe change it to
>
> "Copyright (C) 1988, 2020 RTEMS Project and contributors"
>
> similar the documentation?
>

That's fine by me.  It's short. Hopefully won't ever push someone over
a size limit.

Long, long ago, this string was how someone found out an Alcatal DSL modem
was using RTEMS.

>
> >
> > Any ideas on how to leave a string that says "RTEMS is here"?
> If we place it in an .rtemsroset.* it will not get garbage collected by
> the linker.
>

+1

Thanks.
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