On 25/01/15 15:36, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > I came across a curiosity while updating the wine package today. I > noticed that upstream wine generates one of their source files from > the contents of RFC3454 [0]. > > There is a tool (tools/make_unicode) that among other things downloads > the RFC from rfc-editor.org and generates nameprep.c. That process is > done upstream, not in the Debian build system. > > So, obvious question is whether data generated from something > currently considered non-free can itself be considered free?
Generally, no. However, if the data is not copyrightable, then possibly yes. By the way, a similar situation seems to have come up with Unicode a while ago: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/07/msg00076.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54c47738.7090...@bitmessage.ch
