Hans, Sorry, I forgot to answer about this.
> Le 20 déc. 2020 à 18:25, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> On 20 Dec 2020, at 11:15, Akim Demaille <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Le 19 déc. 2020 à 11:06, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> a écrit : >>> >>> Though by the nature of examples, you may not want to add a copyright >>> notice on them: As special cases of something more general, they may not be >>> sufficiently creatively unique to be copyrightable, and in addition, you >>> may want people to use them without a worry of copyrighting. >> >> You have a point, but that discussion already took place and was settled >> down with Paul. >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2020-07/msg00010.html > > I can't see the discussion on your link, Yes, it was not public. > but the recommendation is here [1]. In general, one should put license > notices just in case, so that they are not treated as though being public > domain, I think. > > 1. > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Code-Examples.html Here are the relevant parts of our discussion. > Le 4 juil. 2020 à 17:54, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On 7/4/20 8:07 AM, Akim Demaille wrote: >> Bison's examples are getting larger, they are no longer smallish. Yet they >> don't have the usual license comments, because I never thought about what >> license to give them... >> >> What license would you recommend? > > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Code-Examples.html > > suggests using the GPL for anything longer than 40 lines. Or are you asking > about the exact details for how to do this? I'd look to see how Emacs does > it.... > Le 6 juil. 2020 à 22:15, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On 7/5/20 10:08 PM, Akim Demaille wrote: >> So you'd go with the GPL? > > Yes. It's a better default, for the GNU project anyway. If someone asks for a > different license we can revisit this later.
