Em Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:10:38 +0100 Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > That's said, this is just database entries where the values were obtained > > from a public service. Anyone else with access to the same > > transponders/carriers would be obtaining the very same data. So, I don't > > think that copyright law applies here. IANAL, but it sounds to me > > that such info would be public domain. > > Please be aware that in at least the EU database compilations _can_ be > copyrighted. It makes life a lot simpler for distributions if you just > pretend that it can be copyrighted and apply a license. Yes. Better safe than sorry. > If you want > something approaching public domain, the BSD license is an obvious > choice. Going with the LGPL as you propose later in the email is > perfectly fine too. Changing to BSD could be a problem, as re-licensing would require an ack from the original contributors, except if the license is a compatible one. Collecting everyone's ack on such change could be painful, and for no good reason. So, to make it simpler, I would just use the LGPL. Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
