We already went through this dicussion for sdcc libraries and the decision was GPL+LE. So please serch & replace GPL with GPL+LE in my previous posts ;-)
Borut On 03/31/2011 12:58 AM, Alain Mouette wrote: > DANGER... DANGER... > I have been silently following this and then it truck me!!! > > Libraries and headers thar generate at least ONE byte cannot be GPL!!! > Some people use compilers to create comercial products, and it that byte > goes along it becomes "derived work" and cannot be protected... > > Please use BSD/MIT (or MPL if you don't want it to be completly free) > > For the compiler GPL is ok because no byte of the compiler executable > gets *into* the compiled code !!! > > THANKS > Alain > > Em 30-03-2011 18:37, Kustaa Nyholm escreveu: >> 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
