Re: What is the license of generated files?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

I realize gtk-doc doesn't use yelp's tool chain, but just as a point of
comparison, yelp-xsl's COPYING file goes to some trouble to clarify this
kind of situation and give broad permissions on generated files:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/yelp-xsl/tree/COPYING

Stefan, I don't know how much control you have over the copyrights of
these files, but I'd suggest doing something similar if possible.

--
Shaun

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:25 +0200, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> +legal-list, any suggestions?
>
> Stefan
>
> On 02/04/2013 11:03 PM, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > On 12/14/2012 01:11 PM, David Nečas wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:54:13PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > > > I personally like the exception method ala Autotools but would be
> > > > fine with the GFDL 1.3 license which has already been cleared with
> > > > Eclipse.org.
> > >
> > > I hope that whatever license is chosen it is meant to be be dual with
> > > GNU GPL under which they are implicitly licensed now.  GNU FDL is a
> > > peculiar license, incompatible with GNU GPL(!) and in some variants
> > > verging on non-free, whether cleared by eclipse.org or not.  If the
> > > files were GNU FDL license I am afraid many would nave to look for
> > > replacements under a different license.
> > >
> > > > Is there any way of contacting the original contributor of the .png
> > > > files to have them licensed?  If not, I would suggest replacing
> > > > them. It should be simple to find such icons with an appropriate
> > > > license.
> > >
> > > As someone who likes the current images and their current license I
> > > wonder what is the best way to keep them used when the documentation of
> > > my projects is compiled.
> > >
> > > Yeti
> >
> > Any progress on this?  This is potentially a serious issue.  Should I
> > open a bug against gtk docs?
> >
> > GPL would be unacceptable from our stand-point for documentation.  I
> > think the best solution would be that the owner of the documentation
> > gets to decide how to license the generated files (i.e. they purposely
> > have no license information).
> >
> > The icons still need to be dealt with.
> >
> > -- Jeff
> >
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