Re: Freeness of code automatically generated from RFCs?
On 25/01/15 15:36, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across a curiosity while updating the wine package today. I
> noticed that upstream wine generates one of their source files from
> the contents of RFC3454 [0].
>
> There is a tool (tools/make_unicode) that among other things downloads
> the RFC from rfc-editor.org and generates nameprep.c. That process is
> done upstream, not in the Debian build system.
>
> So, obvious question is whether data generated from something
> currently considered non-free can itself be considered free?
Generally, no. However, if the data is not copyrightable, then possibly yes.
By the way, a similar situation seems to have come up with Unicode a
while ago: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/07/msg00076.html
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