Copyright notice in the 'ld' manual

Copyright notice in the 'ld' manual

[Ulf Samuelsson]

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I was planning to include some example CRC calculation routines in the 
'ld' manual.

Some of this code is under MIT license, but copyrighted.


  * Do I add this copyright with the examples in the ld.texi file?


BTW:

Nick, Your email address is "nickc@*c*redhat.com" in the manual.

Best Regards

Ulf Samuelsson

Re: Copyright notice in the 'ld' manual

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Ulf,

> I was planning to include some example CRC calculation routines in the 'ld' manual.
> 
> Some of this code is under MIT license, but copyrighted.
>
>   * Do I add this copyright with the examples in the ld.texi file?

Maybe.  If the examples are small and not "legally significant" then
you can include them without the copyright.  Although acknowledging
their source is proper.  If however the examples are legally significant
then the copyright notice should be included, and you should make it
clear as to exactly which parts of the ld.text documentation are
covered by the license.

The definition of legally significant can be found in section 6.2 of
the GNU Maintainers guidelines, and details about accepting non-FSF
copyrighted code can be found in section 6.4.1:

   https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copying-from-Other-Packages


> Nick, Your email address is "nickc@*c*redhat.com" in the manual.

oops!  Thanks for letting me know.  I have checked in a small patch to correct this.

Cheers
   Nick