Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: > To avoid any implication that anything from the headers has been copied, > why not just use the output of "nm [-D]". This is the interface that > programs use to link with the library, and is what you need to provide > as a drop-in replacement.
I'm also not a lawyer, and you'd really need to get a legal opinion, but I'm fairly sure that this is excessively conservative. The prototypes in the header (sans any macros, inline functions, or comments) constitute a functional interface, which is not copyrightable in the US and I believe is not copyrightable in Europe either. There is some precendent for doing something similar to what you're doing (see readline/editline). Of course, even if what you're doing is perfectly legal, that doesn't prevent someone from suing you anyway. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bojsx1cs....@windlord.stanford.edu
