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| author | Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org> | 2020-04-30 16:29:06 -0500 |
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| committer | Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org> | 2020-05-01 11:11:31 -0500 |
| commit | 2d22d7453d56e9558a11a8f80a3f139018df2da8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1fa59b1411a8e2ecc8c19bd9a23c3330d224f7be /eng/coding-conventions.rst | |
| parent | user/rsb: Update the configuration documentation (diff) | |
| download | rtems-docs-2d22d7453d56e9558a11a8f80a3f139018df2da8.tar.bz2 | |
Rework RTEMS licensing discussions.
This now captures historical rationale along with cross-linking
code templates with license guidelines.
Closes #3962.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/eng/coding-conventions.rst b/eng/coding-conventions.rst index 488ee26..10034df 100644 --- a/eng/coding-conventions.rst +++ b/eng/coding-conventions.rst @@ -33,15 +33,16 @@ Source Documentation Licenses -------- -* The RTEMS `License <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/TBR/Website/License>`_. is the typical - and preferred license. - * 2- and 3-clause BSD, MIT, and other OSI-approved non-copyleft licenses - that permit statically linking with the code of different licenses - are acceptable. - * GPL licensed code is NOT acceptable, neither is LGPL. - See `this blog post explanation <http://gedare-csphd.blogspot.com/2013/05/software-licenses-with-rtems.html>`_. - for more information. - * Advertising obligations are NOT acceptable, but restrictions are permissible. +The RTEMS Project has strict requirements on the types of software licenses +that apply to software it includes and distributes. Submissions will be +summarily rejected that do not follow the correct license or file header +requirements. + +* Refer to :ref:`LicensingRequirements` for a discussion of the acceptable + licenses and the rationale. + +* Refer to :ref:`FileHeaderCopyright` for example copyright/license comment + blocks for various languages. Language and Compiler --------------------- |