Re: [Vala] Generated code license?

[Mike <mgoppold5 yahoo com>]

Do the vala authors reserve any copyright on the biolerplate code and 
such?  Or is it public domain, then the author of the input vala code 
takes ownership?

Noah Gibbs <noah_gibbs yahoo com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Source: 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2008-August/msg00069.html
>   The primary difference is that Vala includes some boilerplate code (for instance, type definition macros
> and signal-registration stuff) which could be considered copyrighted in its own right.  Early Bison (a parser
> generator) actually copyrighted its output separately because that output included large sections of GPL'd
> code from Bison.
>
>   While valac can be used to generate binaries, it generates them by creating .c and .h files including some
> amount of boilerplate code, and then compiling.  If that boilerplate code was considered to be LGPL'd, then
> so would the resulting code/binary.
>
>   However, I'm willing to take the assurances of Vala's creator that he doesn't consider that boilerplate
> code to be significant enough to separately copyright.
>
>   But since you asked:  that's how it's different.  Vala is less like using Word to create a .doc file that
> way, and a bit like doing your own "Mad Libs".  If the guys who do "Mad Libs" were to copyright their
> template (and they do), your new Mad Libs would be a derivative work of their template.  I was asking whether
> Vala was like that.  It isn't.