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Making tutorials for Tiva using TivaWare. Can i have problems with copyrights?

Luis Afonso
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Hi everyone. So i give every week a kind of class that introduces some colleagues of my to the Tiva. Since they never programmed anything beyond the windows console they don't really know much about MCUs so the classes are using TivaWare, while i try to slowly get in there the notion of registers and basics on how the peripherals work.

So i decided to make tutorials for them to help anyone that is starting with the Tiva launchpad i created a blog. The blog has tutorials and explanations of my own, assisted by the datasheet of course. There's also reference to learning resources from TI like the launchpad lab workshops. There's also code examples, some explained in more detail for learning purposes.

Here are the tutorials: https://sites.google.com/site/luiselectronicprojects/tutorials/tiva-tutorials

My question is. Do i need any disclaimers? I do have in 1 explanation about the ADC the use of a example from TivaWare. Being so i have the comments/disclaimer that is in it that states that a modified version of the code needs that said disclaimer. Here is that code: https://sites.google.com/site/luiselectronicprojects/tutorials/tiva-tutorials/tiva-adc/internal-temperature-sensor

Please advise, i would not like to lose all the info that i have there since it helps allot my colleagues when they want to study at home. And also a number of people already follow the blog since they are learning how to use the Tiva launchpad

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    TI__Intellectual 935 points

    Luis,

    You did it correctly.

    You modified temperature_sensor.c which is copyrighted and includes disclaimers.  Your modification must retain the original copyright / disclaimers which you did by including in your code.

    I'm looking at the code at the bottom of this page.

     https://sites.google.com/site/luiselectronicprojects/tutorials/tiva-tutorials/tiva-adc/internal-temperature-sensor 

    Regards,

    Dave

  • 0 in reply to David Maples
    Guru 20670 points

    Thank you David.

    I do have more codes but i made them from scratch, so they don't have those disclaimers. Of course since i started learning with TivaWare examples, it's normal that some similarities can happen, i've adopted some of the methods in are in those examples.

    Also, i have references and info taken from the datasheet, sometimes tables. Should i make in the beginning page of the tutorials a disclaimer that i use images and tables from the datasheet? I do always say, "look at this table, table 1 from the MCU datasheet" and post the image.

    It's easier to explain that way, i do want to make it possible to the person learning, to learn where to search by themselves if any problem arises. So i like to refer TI guides and datasheets or the explanations to show that the info is there

  • 0 in reply to Luis Afonso
    TI__Intellectual 935 points

    Luis,

    Your code does not need to have the copyright or disclaimers.  Some similarities are ok.

    It is ok to include datasheet images as long as you state the source.

    Regards,
    Dave

  • 0 in reply to David Maples
    Guru 20670 points

    Thank you once again Dave.

    Good to know. I do intend in making tutorials for most of the peripherals so it would be a shame to lose allot of them due to copyright infringements after they are done.