Our lawyer's opinion seems to be that the generated code is owned by the owner of the input file by default, even without a special note. However, I've added a note to COPYING.txt anyway to make it completely clear. http://protobuf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/COPYING.txt
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Travis P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The code generated by protoc requires linking against the protobuf >> libraries, so the Protocol Buffers license terms apply to you either way. >> > > Ah, right. Thanks for reminding me of that. > > I can talk to our licensing people and get this clarified if you want, but >> given this, does it still matter? >> > > Alas, yes, even so, it'd probably be good to have clarity in this area. > :-/ > It'll make PB easier to use. :-) > > BTW, v2.0.2 (to be released later this week) will be under BSD instead of >> Apache 2. >> > > Yep, I noticed that you'd already changed COPYING.txt. > > -Travis > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
