[patch] Add semihosting documentation for nios2 and m68k
Sandra Loosemore
sandra@codesourcery.com
Wed Mar 13 15:07:00 GMT 2019
On 3/13/19 8:53 AM, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Hi Sandra,
>
> If documentation is taken verbatim from comments in code, it requires
> the copyright license(s) that the code was under. If on the other hand
> you wrote the documentation yourself by looking at/knowing how the code
> works, it is yours to license as you want. If you are taking
> comments verbatim from code and it is written by you and other folks,
> you can't just license under "any" terms because that doesn't imply
> permission of the other
> folks unless it uses the license that everyone already agreed upon
> (which can be nothing if no license governs the code).
>
> I hope that clarifies. If a license is required, you can add a separate
> license file for each doc file if you don't want the license to be
> present in the documentation.
Well, the listed copyright holder on the corresponding code files is
CodeSourcery/Mentor Graphics, so presumably we still retain the right to
do whatever we want with it, including cutting and pasting comments into
a separate documentation file.
I can add the same copyright notice and license terms to the new
documentation files.
-Sandra
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