It would be useful to have a lawyer provide an opinion on exactly what can be done with such a file, and of course you almost certainly won't get one here, though I'm sure someone here might be able to point you to a lawyer who is willing to provide advice, perhaps even without cost. But here are some decidedly non-lawyer musings. As to the file, I'm pretty sure it's subject to copyright even though all it contains (from a cursory glance) is a mapping from names to numbers. It's essentially documentation of an API and that's been quite an interesting legal subject lately. Plus, at least some versions of that file contain original work. Given that the original version of the file is available, it should be trivial to separate out that original work. Someone in some less restrictive jurisdiction than the US should write up some original documentation for the API, using whatever information they have available. The actual symbol names (or at least some of them) appear to be documented in the SDK, so it should be perfectly OK to include those in said documentation. Some other enterprising person might be inclined to take that nice documentation and create an include file to make it easy for programmers to use the API without having to define all of those numbers themselves. I can think of at least one convenient name for such a file. This file could of course be under any license the author might choose. - J< _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
