Re: [avr-libc-dev] 1.8.1?

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] 1.8.1?
> 
> 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.

Totally agreed.

To be clear, I was referring to the header files that *Atmel* has generated 
from their own XML files. It's those header files that can't be submitted by 
anyone outside Atmel.

Eric