Re: Licence and copyright for autogenerated files (gtk-vim-syntax)

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Laurent Bigonville <l.bigonville@edpnet.be> writes:

> Copying:  I hereby waive any potential rights on the syntax files.  I
> am not sure whether a list of library symbols can be copyrighted at
> all.  But this world is full of lawyers with the silliest ideas.  The
> ideal state (which would solve all copyright problems once for all)
> would be distribution of the syntax files directly with the respective
> libraries, but I do not hope for that.
> ========>8==========
>
> By reading this I'm tempted to think that these files belong to the
> public domain.

I agree. Only the first sentence "I hereby ..." seems to have any
legal effect; the rest is commentary, and a non-restrictive request.

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Ben Finney