Purpose of _Copyright_Notice?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 06/05/2020 04:37, groups at chichak.ca wrote:

> 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.
The volatile const doesn't help you with the linker garbage collection. 
You need something which ends up in a KEEP() section.
>
> 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”.
Yes, it is a nice gimmick.