> -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > org] On Behalf Of Frédéric Nadeau > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:17 PM > To: Sebastien Lelong > Cc: avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] Open Source license for embedded systems > > Why don't you do like Micro$oft?, hide the acknoledgement in > your binary. > > http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=BSD%20Code%20in%20Windows > > It does however use some code space, but heck, sure you can spare 200 > bytes for that :) > > I do not encourage it, but it is sure an alternative to having the > acknowledgement in the manual.
That is not feasible. For one, look at the first page of the avr-libc manual: <http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/index.html> Now scroll down to the very bottom. There you will see a list of all of the copyright holders of portions of avr-libc. It's quite a long list. 39 entries if I counted correctly. Second, the amount of space that it would take up is infeasible in a small embedded device. Microsoft can hide things in an ever-bloated executable on a PC with virtually unlimited resources. 200 bytes on an AVR could make or break an application. I can't speak for all of the avr-libc copyright holders, but I would think that many of them do not care if they are mentioned in the documentation, though that would be a very nice thing. Just don't say that you wrote avr-libc, or that you have a copyright in avr-libc (unless you actually do). _______________________________________________ AVR-libc-dev mailing list AVR-libc-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-libc-dev
