On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:13:05 -0400, Steve Teale
<steve.te...@britseyeview.com> wrote:
There's a discussion going on about Windows header files that has
discussed whether header files can be copyright.
Header files may be an issue with the database implementations. For
example my mysql.d is a straight translation of mysql.h (and a couple of
others). Does that mean it is tainted by GPL and I can't make it Boost?
A direct translation is a derivative work. So yes, it must be GPL.
However, there must be ways around this. I believe headers have certain
rules in most licenses.
You will definitely need some sort of non-translated header though. I'm
not a license expert, so I don't know to what lengths you need to go to
re-license the header.
However, what about mysql itself? If the header is GPL, so is the
library, no? I'm assuming you are not reimplementing the mysql client
lib? Linking against a GPL library is definitely not going to be
acceptable in a phobos module.
-Steve
