Re: gperf output licence

[Paul Jarc]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Can you point out a software license (a realistic one, not a made-up one)
> where the gperf-processed output would not be under the same license as the
> input?

I haven't looked.  For gperf's input files, it seems unlikely that
there would be any examples.  But if I were writing the documentation,
I wouldn't want to give the impression that, as a general matter of
copyright law, derivative works a) are always allowed and b) always
inherit the license of the original work.  I'd probably say something
like:

  On the other hand, the output produced by gperf contains essentially
  all of the input file.  Therefore the output is a derivative work of
  the input that was passed to gperf, and its copyright and license
  status depend on the copyright and license of the input.


paul