Consider an API whose normative specification is maintained in an XML file describing enum values, entrypoints, etc. The XML file is covered under Apache 2.0. I write a python script to parse that XML and emit a C header describing that API. What license options do I have for that header? My amateur reading of Apache 2.0 Section 4 (Redistribution) is that I can choose whatever I want for the generated header. The last paragraph in particular: > You may add Your own copyright statement to Your modifications and > may provide additional or different license terms and conditions for > use, reproduction, or distribution of Your modifications, or for any > such Derivative Works as a whole, provided Your use, reproduction, > and distribution of the Work otherwise complies with the conditions > stated in this License. The header is the Derivative Work, and I need not distribute the source XML at all. On the other hand, my amateur reading of the definition of "Derivative Work" in Apache 2.0: > "Derivative Works" shall mean any work, whether in Source or Object > form, that is based on (or derived from) the Work and for which the > editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other > modifications represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship. > For the purposes of this License, Derivative Works shall not include > works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to > the interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works thereof. Suggests that such a header file would not count as a Derivative Work; I'm not sure what it would count as, but as it's merely a binding to the interfaces defined by the Work... - ajax _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
