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[eclipse.org-architecture-council] [Bug 249959] [discussion] How to treat copyright headers for checked-in generated sources?
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https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249959
Product/Component: Community / Architecture Council
--- Comment #3 from Martin Oberhuber <martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-10-07 10:38:45 -0400 ---
Thanks for the clarification, Ed.
I should have been more careful with the word "template". What I meant, was in
fact not so far away from what you are saying. Of course, user input into the
generator can also be seen as some kind of "template". Which is applied in a
transformed or untransformed manner. In general, I think that the Copyright
Status of something generated is some mathematical function
f(x1,x2,x3,...)
of all its inputs x1,x2,x3 (with "input" being user input or template).
I agree with you that most generators are likely licensed in a way as you
describe, making the license or copyright status of the generated output *not*
depend on the template. This makes sense, since nobody would want to generate
anything if the generated artifact is not distributable as the person
generating it wants.
I do not think, however, that this makes any change with respect to my second
assertion (absence or presence of a copyright header does not change copyright
status); nor my advice (commit without copyright header).
Ideally, the generated artifact should carry a message "Generated from X,Y,Z"
which should be sufficient to deduct copyright and license status.
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