On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You cannot include a file under the GPL license without being >> contaminated. Even a simple .h with only some #define.
This is not correct, as DES explained. Anyway, the amd5536.h file has a much more serious problem: it contains a license statement but not the name of the copyright owner, which is mandatory. Anonymous contents can not be licensed. > On the contrary, as was settled in SCO v. IBM, constant and structure > definitions are not copyrightable if they are dictated by external > factors, such as compatibility with existing software or hardware. > > There are even cases in which actual code is not copyrightable, > specifically if the algorithm it implements is so simple that no > reasonable programmer would have implemented it in any other way. > > (SCO tried to argue, among other things, that Linux had stolen errno.h > from SCO Unix) > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I mostly agree with you, but considering my previous experiences with GPL-ed header files and their copyright owners(1), I would prefer not to take the risk. Reference 1. http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/GLw/README.txt?rev=1.2 -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
