Re: [avr-libc-dev] 1.8.1?

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Weddington, Eric wrote:

(XML)

> That is dodgy; Atmel owns the copyright on those files. It's not
> within your right to submit a work that you don't own the copyright
> on.

Well, back in the era when Ted Roth did most of the work here, the
statement he got from Atmel was that using (or copying) the XML file
literally is prohibited, but taking whatever information out of it,
and store just that information separately is fine.

This statement is what eventually led to the idea that's still present
in the xml/ subdirectory: convert the Atmel XML files into a format
that belongs to avr-libc, and create all the avr-libc internal
information from that format.

Bottom line: if anyone derives a header file from the Atmel XML files,
the original Atmel copyright (for the XML file) does not apply to the
derived work.
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