Re: SDK header translations licensing?

> > Yes, I agree. I suspect the "further copyright" is subject to
> > approval of the original copyright owner though. In the case of open
> > source this is obviously there, and does not allow changing of the
> > licensing conditions? I'm asserting that this is probably the case for
> > code under other licenses i.e. DirectX 9 SDK files under the Microsoft
> > EULA should still be under those conditions once translated.
> 
> Well, another interesting aspect is: Is there a real copyright on that files
> which prevents one from translating the file? At least here in Germany there
> is pretty likely that this stuff is not protected by copyright law. I do not
> know how the copyright rights are in other countries. There are two aspects
> here:
> 
> 1) Interfaces can not be protected by copyright law.

That means you are allowed to reverse engineer them, not that you base
on copyrighted documents. (headers)
 
> 2) Publishing stuff to access a library etc. implies that it is the official
> interface to the library and therefor can be used by anyone so they can
> access the library. This includes the right to translate that stuff to other
> programming languages.

For own use. Not publically distributing.



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