Re: Licensing special software

Hi Aitor,

> Henrique Peron and myself have prepared an upgrade on the xkeyb "KEY 
> files set" that would fix those problems ocurring in the .KEY files that 
> define the national layouts, but do not have directly to do with the 
> program executable. We understand this to be software, but not code, and 
> would like to choose a free-style license for such a package.
> GNU-GPL often refers to "program" in its text, so does not seem to be 
> appropriate for this situation.
> 
> Does anyone have ideas or comments about the choice of an appropriate 
> license for such a material?

I believe that if you include in the same package as xkeyb, it becomes 
_part_ of the software. You can also add a comment line in each file
stating that it is part of xkeyb and thus gpl.

just _my_ opinion

Alain