I'm curious as to what German law says about the copyright/license
of the output of a program for which the output depends on (is
derived from) input with a particular copyright/license.
It would seem weird/bad if simply running a copyrighted/licensed
document through a program produced output that was not
copyrighted/licensed. Wouldn't that be a simple way to subvert the
intent of the copyright/license? There must be more to it than
that.
Markus KARG wrote on 12/14/18 10:22 AM:
Ivar,
most
people from the US think they can export their legal system
to Europe. This simply does not work, as US copyright laws
and German copyright law is totally different (e. g. in
Germany you cannot see or buy IP but you only can sell or
buy licences to use IP). So as the EF really cares about IP,
they should ask the EF Europe / EF Germany for their
lawyer's opionions, instead of posting individual
non-official opinions.
As
I told you in JavaLand, in Germany rules are different than
in the US. A copyright can only be granted to humans, and to
do that, the human has to create a more or less exceptional
work by his own hands / brains (in particular,
things that the average engineer could invent could
not be copyrighted). So whatevery a machine creates
can definitively not be copyrighted! If a machine applies a
copyright into a machine-generated work, this would be worthless
(at best, it would be confusing; at worst, it could
be interpreted as an attempt of fraud).
-Markus
Thanks Markus!
Do you by that say that it must NOT be
"1"? Or would that be ok as well?
Auto-generated
files (at least in Germany) do not fulfil any
criteria needed to be copyrighted at all, as
machines cannot hold copyright. Hence (at least in
Germany) it must be "2".
-Markus
I
would say "1" sounds like the reasonable answer, but
there may be some rules that I am not aware of...
Hi,
The Jakarta EL Reference Implementation has a
JavaCC grammar for EL that
is licensed under the standard license:
EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
This grammar is then used as an input to JavaCC
which generates a Java
parser for EL that consists of a handful of Java
files.
A question has arisen as to what license header
should be applied to the
generated files.
Is it:
1. The standard license?
2. No license (because they are auto-generated)?
3. Something else?
I'm expecting the answer to either be "1" or "1 or
2 but we recommend 1".
Currently, "1" is being used.
Thanks,
Mark
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