FYI
i guess that settles
it.
Kind regards
Thomas Menzel @ brox IT-Solutions GmbH
From: Oberhuber, Martin
[mailto:Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008 16:11
To: Thomas Menzel; eclipse.org-committers@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [eclipse.org-committers] opinion wanted: check in generated
code ornot vs.copyright notice
Hi
Thomas,
I
don't see anything wrong at all with filing bugs. Compared to the
mailing
list, bugzilla is searchable and much more flexible at
restricting
/ enabling discussion with the right parties.
I
have therefore opened a bug against EAC for your request:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249959
I
think that typically, you'd want to ask questions such as this
one
your PMC, and/or your assigned mentor, and/or the EAC.
In
this case, I believe that the answer is simple:
No
generated source code bears any _expression_ of creativity
or
art whatsoever, and is therefore not subject to Copyright law.
Therefore,
just leave the source as it is (without any copyright
header),
and check it in.
If
there is any copyrightable material in the generated code,
then
it's the template from which it was generated. Therefore,
that
very template is responsible for adding a copyright header
or
not.
Also,
note that the absence or presence of a Copyright Header
does
not change the legal status of any material in any way --
its
copyright owner, or license information exist or do not exist
regardless
of whether that information is in the source file or not.
Having
it in the source file is just a matter of making it easier for
adopters
to find the relevant information.
I've
copied the very same answer to bugzilla. Additional discussions
on
bugzilla please.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of
Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
From:
eclipse.org-committers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipse.org-committers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Thomas Menzel
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:37 PM
To: eclipse.org-committers@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eclipse.org-committers] opinion wanted: check in generated
code ornot vs.copyright notice
hi,
I just wanted to get your opinion on this
subject:
we have some generated code (JAXB) that we
use in the SMILA project.
in the past we have just checked in these
source files in our non-eclipse projects as they change infrequently and are
needed for the developers to write their code.
now, at eclipse we need to provide a proper
copyright notice but unfortunately the code generator wont let us add a
custom jdoc where we could place that.
modifying the generated source files to add
the notice is cumbersome and probably tends to get forgotten.
generating during build is technically
feasible but from the developers point of view not an ideal situation as the
code would be cleaned on every build and u would have to make at least a
partial build to start
developing.
so, have anybody of u crossed this issue as
well?
how have u dealt with it in regard to
IP cleanliness?
bearing the discussion in the use of this
in mind but also seeing eclipse’s warning to be frugal with opening bugs I didn’t
want to open one just yet, but will in case the discussion gets lively.
Kind
regards
Thomas
Menzel @ brox
IT-Solutions
GmbH