[avr-libc-dev] Re: Open Source license for embedded systems

[David Brown]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Frédéric Nadeau wrote:
>
> > Why don't you do like Micro$oft?, hide the acknoledgement in your
> > binary.
>
> > I do not encourage it, but it is sure an alternative to having the
> > acknowledgement in the manual.
>
> It's completely pointless here.  Those people who don't want to go
> opensource (and only those are usually concerned about the licensing
> terms) will likely set the device lock bits afterwards anyway, so what
> will it be good for?  It might satisfy the letter of the licensing
> terms, but not the spirit, so you can safely even spare the 200 bytes
> for that in your ROM.

I would like to be able to put a short copyright notice in the binary. 
I often have a small section near the start of a binary containing a few 
fixed strings - the name of the program, its version and date, and a 
copyright notice for our company.  I would like to be able to include a 
line such as "Library code copyright avr-libc authors" as an 
acknowledgement of the copyright, without taking too much space.

I would also like to be able to put such a short notice (perhaps with a 
URL) in documentation rather than a full list of all the avr-libc 
contributors - the full avr-libc copyright notice would look very 
dominant and out-of-place in anything but an extensive technical document.

Would something like that be of interest to the avr-libc developers?

mvh.,

David Brown
Norway.