Coding / Style Standards for sharing C code

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

The BSD license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) Allows any modification to the code to be used for any reason, as long as the license notice is retained. Thus, it is close to being public domain, but you guarantee that your name will stay with the code for posterity (as opposed to the public domain, where you could remove any notices from the code).
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The BSD or LGPL is probably good for this. There are very few limits put on the use/modification of the software that way.

I also have to add that I like the way you copied yourself there...

P.S. I don't like the default code style much.

[Astronouth7303]

I say that uniformity. And the basic layout (header comments and such) is pretty good. I usually don't keep the bottom bit, though.

Sorta like MPLAB!

[Joe Ross]

Well, Dr. Joe just said I volunteered for the licensing portion of the committee. I'd be willing to accept with the disclaimer that IANAL* although I've been told I should be one at various points. My other disclaimer is that I need someone to check to see that I don't make any more copy and paste errors

*IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer

[Mike Ciance]

that would be very helpful to both new and old teams. we had a ton of trouble programming our big arm this year (i know because i was one of the programmers) we had a real hard time figuring out how to properly bring in the analog inputs and use them in the code, the booklets we got had nothing about analog!