Please RTFM @ http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sdcc/wiki/Library%20License%20Selection ;-)
Cheers Sebastien 2011/3/31 Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> > Ok, but what is LE? Google could not help, nor even SDCC's site... > > Could you send a link (or the licence)? > > Thanks, > Alain > > Em 31-03-2011 02:07, Borut Razem escreveu: > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 >
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