Re: Licensing issues with a research project

[John Hasler]

Tassilo writes:
> Our lib is GPL and it has a code generator which spits out java code.
> The generated code is also GPLed currently, and the EPL code
> specializes the generated classes only.  Could we change our lib to
> LGPL and spit out BSD-style licensed code, so that the library itself
> is only used/linked and only the generated code is extended/modified?

Does the generated code contain significant fractions of protected
elements of the library itself?  If not the generated code is a
mechanical transformation of the input and so only the license on the
input applies.  Even if elements of the library are in the generated
code you can apply a different license to them than to the library.  The
Gcc license does exactly that.
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John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA