On 3/31/11 00:05, "Borut Ražem" <borut.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: >If this is so, there is no need to regenerate the files: we can just put >our copyright on the existing ones and declare that they are GPLed...
Nothing can be copyrighted: copyright comes into being by the creative process of creating original stuff. It either comes out of that process or not. Putting any number of copyright texts will not change the status of the file and if the file does not have a copyright, stamping it GPL will not work either as the only moral / enforceable hold GPL has over the source file is copyright. Of course you can put anything onto a non copyrighted text but the it has no legal power, just deterring power. Perhaps someone might claim damages if they feel that the misleading information has caused them harm. I would be in in favor of generating the files by any means from the info on the data sheets and stating that they are in the public domain. br Kusti >On 03/30/2011 08:31 PM, Weston Schmidt wrote: >>"Facts are not copyrightable, but a collection of facts in a certain >> order, etc. could be, not the facts themselves but their arrangement >> in the whole." Could be, but I don't think there is any artistic merit in the order they are presented or the source code formatting, unless very special. Heck, run the through a pretty printer and they format is totally machine generated with no originality. >> So my interpretation is that by extracting the facts, breaking the >> presentation into a different arrangement (xml file, arbitrary >> ordering, etc.) constitutes a new work that can be copyrighted >> separately (the facts in my documents are still not copyright-able, so >> someone else could do exactly the same thing with my work) Yes I think we can do that and might be slightly more safe than just copying the stuff from Microchip .inc files (or from where ever they currently come) but No, they are still not copyrighted. br Kusti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
