Should README's have license statement?

[Christian MAUDERER]

Hello Joel,

Am 10.06.22 um 17:42 schrieb Joel Sherrill:
> Hi
> 
> I'm back to relicensing for a bit and noticed that it looks like none of 
> the README's in testsuites have a license or copyright statement. Should 
> they?

Difficult question and I don't really have an answer for it. Some longer 
README files most likely should have a license (like the files in 
libbsd). Others are very short and contain more or less only a comment 
for a directory (like the testsuites/sptests/README). I'm not sure about 
these.

> 
> I can do forensics on the copyright attribution.
> 
> Should the README's be BSD-2, Creative Commons, or remain like they are 
> with nothing?

READMEs have the tendency that they are added to the documentation once 
they reach a certain size. So if they need a license I think the same 
license like in rtems-docs would be the best one.

Best regards

Christian

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --joel
> 
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