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TRG 7.08 - Legal notice for KIT documentation (CC-BY-4.0)

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Active18-Jul-2023CC-BY-4.0 topics moved here from 7.07

Why​

Eclipse Tractus-X is an open source project hosted by the Eclipse Foundation licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The legal obligations of the content must be observed in all forms of which the content is available.

For specifically defined KIT documentation files the secondary license CC-BY-4.0 is required.

All products delivered by the project—including websites, documentation, and help must include certain notices. Documentation might include a notice in either the pre- or post-amble, or a website might provide this information in a common footer, or a dedicated page. (From: Eclipse Foundation Project Handbook)

Description​

In Eclipse Tractus-X the primary outbound license is Apache-2.0 for code repositories, so this is the default license.

For specifically defined KIT documentation files the CC-BY-4.0 license is required, these are:

  • page_adoption_view.md(x)

Self-created images embedded in the listed KIT documentation files under the CC-BY-4.0, have also to be licensed under the CC-BY-4.0.

Location of the license​

If you use the CC-BY-4.0 license as "second" license, you have to put it to the `LICENSES/' directory.

More information in TRG 7.07.

See also the human-readable summary of the CC-BY-4.0.

Documentation for KITs​

Add a NOTICE section (post or preamble) into your dedicated documentation file, with the following information, here in md format:

## NOTICE

This work is licensed under the [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 202x,202y <MyCompany>
- Source URL: https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/<myrepo>

See here how to handle multiple copyright owners.

Self-created images​

As images (and other formats) cannot be edited, there is a workaround to provide the license and copyright information. For images under the CC-BY-4.0 license, create a new file with the same name and the .license postfix next to the image with the following content:

This work is licensed under the [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 202x,202y <MyCompany>
- Source URL: https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/<myrepo>

Example:

project/
|__ docs/
|   |__ adoption-view.md
|       |__ img/
|           |__ image1.jpg
|           |__ image1.jpg.license
|           |__ image2.png
|           |__ image2.png.license
|__ LICENSE
|__ LICENSES/
|   |__ CC-BY-4.0.txt
| ...

This is the recommended way of REUSE Software.

Third-party content​

See TRG 7.07