Hello, Quoted from /usr/share/doc/lirc/copyright: Summary of copyright messages found in sources: Copyright (C) 1998 Pablo d'Angelo <pablo@ag-trek.allgaeu.org> Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de> Copyright (C) 1996,97 Ralph Metzler (rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de) Copyright (C) 1998 Trent Piepho <xyzzy@u.washington.edu> Copyright (C) 1998 Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org> Copyright (C) 1998.11.18 Sinkovics Zoltan <sinko@szarvas.hu> The whole thing is licensed under the GPL. End quote. However, when starting irrecord, it says: IMPORTANT: The license of the config files created by this program requires that you send them to the author. If you don't like this license exit this program now by pressing Ctrl-C! Otherwise press RETURN. End quote. I do not expect this license to be compatible with the GPL. It doesn't sound very free to me either. Then again, the only problem I see with the DFSG is DFSG #1, where sending this back to the author could be considered a "fee". As I understand it, this license is on the parts of the generated file which are included directly by irrecord. Because as far as I know, the actual recorded codes are just data which the program manipulates, so the copyright for them cannot be claimed by the copyrightholders of irrecord. Now, if I look at a generated file, the directly included parts are only the comments at the start, and some keywords to implement the correct protocol (so it is readable by lircd). It doesn't look like a copyrightable contribution to me, but I am not a lawyer. If it is copyrightable, then that must be the comment at the start, as the keywords could be derived from the (GPL'd) lircd source. Removing the comments at the start from the file would then also remove their copyrighted part. Anyway, as the file is generated from a GPL'd file, I don't see how these parts can have a different license than the GPL. I would like to hear your thoughts about this. Please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Bas Wijnen -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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