License the reference manual under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal

Add a dedicated COPYING.docs file for this. The license is also
mentioned again in the reference manual itself.

diff --git a/COPYING.docs b/COPYING.docs
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..22761ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/COPYING.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+License used for documentation
+==============================
+
+The reference manual shipped along with this project in docs/ is
+released under the following license:
+
+  Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
+
+For the legal code of this license, please see:
+
+  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a2d5038..2ad63ed 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ x.y.z
 * Add documentation for the LAHandlerService class
 * Add documentation for the TargetStartupMonitor class
 * Add documentation for the WatchdogClient class
+* License the reference manual under Creative Commons CC0 1.0
+  Universal (CC0 1.0)
 
 0.9.1
 =====

diff --git a/docs/reference/node-startup-controller/node-startup-controller-docs.xml b/docs/reference/node-startup-controller/node-startup-controller-docs.xml
index e35334c..d05d376 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/reference/node-startup-controller/node-startup-controller-docs.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/node-startup-controller/node-startup-controller-docs.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@
       <year>2012</year>
       <holder>GENIVI</holder>
     </copyright>
+    <legalnotice id="legalnotice">
+      <para>
+        This reference manual is released under
+        <ulink type="http" url="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)</ulink>.
+        For more information and the legal code of this license, please see the
+        <ulink type="http" url="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">license website</ulink>.
+      </para>
+    </legalnotice>
     <authorgroup>
       <author>
         <firstname>Ben</firstname>