On 05/24/2010 07:30 AM, Till Maas wrote: > Hi, > > I asked for proper licensing on a project I was going to package and the > question came up, whether config files should have a license header. > > The ticket at their issue tracker is here: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2869635&group_id=261773&atid=1127533 > > The config file can be accessed here: > http://rcracki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rcracki/rcracki_mt/rcracki_mt.ini?revision=9&view=markup > > What is your advise here? In general, I would not consider config files to be copyrightable, unless they did something complicated or unique. In the example above, IMHO, neither is true, so it is fine to not have a license header. Rule of thumb here is to ask upstream if they feel it that the config file is a copyrightable work. If yes, then it needs a license. If no, then it is fine to not have one. ~spot _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
