> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:18 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 _______________________________________________ AVR-libc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-libc-dev
