Re: [bug-gperf] gperf license

[Brian Neradt]

Mr. Haible,

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply.  I appreciate your response.  Hopefully our lawyer will be satisfied with this, but if not I'll forward her concerns to you.

Regards,

Brian

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:23 PM Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

Brian Neradt writes:
> I work as a software engineer and I've used gperf as a part of our build
> process.  Our legal department has concerns about the gpl licensing of
> gperf.  Per your comment here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2008-05/msg00002.html
>
> It sounds like documentation was added to quell licensing fears.

Yes, the added documentation is here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/html_node/Output-Copyright.html

> I can see
> this addressed on the FAQ site, but our lawyer expects an exception clause
> to the GPL copying file in the code.  Do you know if that exists
> somewhere?

According to my understanding, an exception clause is not needed,
because the output from gperf is not a "work based on" gperf.
If your lawyer has a different understanding, please can you forward me
his argumentation, so that I can talk with the FSF's lawyers to get
things clarified or straightened?

Thanks.

Bruno