Purpose of _Copyright_Notice?

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Wed May 6 02:37:43 UTC 2020


On 2020-May-05, at 06:37, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> 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.
> 
> Any ideas on how to leave a string that says "RTEMS is here"?
> 
> --joel

Mark them volatile const.

I tend to leave copyright notices in my code. Boards can be copied at will but software, including firmware, is copyrighted. You don’t need a copyright notice, but it is sometimes nice to leave it in there if only to say “RTEMS at work”.

Andrei


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