Re: Yikes! License problem with SE library classes.

Roger Browne wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 22:49 +0200, Philippe Ribet wrote:
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>>Could you explain more, please. Why do you need to distribute the 
>>SmartEiffel library for "Amber for Parrort" to work?
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>I would like to distribute the C-code generated by the SmartEiffel
>"no-split" option. That C-code is a derived work which includes both
>my source code (GPL'd) and the SmartEiffel library code.
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What do you mean by "library code"? I thought of eiffel files from lib 
directory, but you might be speaking of C files from sys/runtime directory.


>But then I can't distribute the part that I want to: the generated
>C-code that is derived from a combination of GPL'd Eiffel source and
>non-GPL SmartEiffel libraries.
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I think we never consider the licence status of generated code (given 
that C files are included with their headers).

Thanks for pointing this point,

-- 
Philippe Ribet



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