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From: Luis Villa <luis@lu.is>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:52:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: LEGAL-224: Are Doxygen config files GPL?
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I might suggest that in this case the best solution is to contact the
author and ask them to relicense the file or otherwise grant explicit
blessing. I seem to recall doxygen has been pretty reasonable about this
stuff in the (admittedly distant) past.

Luis

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:43 AM Ryan Blue <blue@cloudera.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I opened an issue, LEGAL-224 [1], but I wanted to raise the question
> here also. Avro currently contains Doxygen config files, like many other
> projects. Those are generated by Doxygen and then updated for the
> project. The problem, however, is that they are based on a GPL source
> file [2].
>
> Doxygen states that "Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative works
> derived from the input used in their production; they are not affected
> by this license". But, the input file used to derive the output in this
> case is a GPL-licensed file in Doxygen itself, not a source file from
> the project.
>
> Can we ship a source release with these files? Should we recreate the
> files from scratch?
>
> I don't think it is the intent of the Doxygen license for this file to
> be GPL, but it appears to me that it is anyway. Should we ask for the
> license to be updated with an exclusion for the configuration files?
>
> rb
>
> [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-224
> [2]: https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/master/src/config.xml
>
> --
> Ryan Blue
> Software Engineer
> Cloudera, Inc.
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>I might suggest that in this case the best solution i=
s to contact the author and ask them to relicense the file or otherwise gra=
nt explicit blessing. I seem to recall doxygen has been pretty reasonable a=
bout this stuff in the (admittedly distant) past.<br><br></div>Luis<br></di=
v><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1=
1:43 AM Ryan Blue &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:blue@cloudera.com">blue@cloudera.co=
m</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin=
:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I opened an issue, LEGAL-224 [1], but I wanted to raise the question<br>
here also. Avro currently contains Doxygen config files, like many other<br=
>
projects. Those are generated by Doxygen and then updated for the<br>
project. The problem, however, is that they are based on a GPL source<br>
file [2].<br>
<br>
Doxygen states that &quot;Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative work=
s<br>
derived from the input used in their production; they are not affected<br>
by this license&quot;. But, the input file used to derive the output in thi=
s<br>
case is a GPL-licensed file in Doxygen itself, not a source file from<br>
the project.<br>
<br>
Can we ship a source release with these files? Should we recreate the<br>
files from scratch?<br>
<br>
I don&#39;t think it is the intent of the Doxygen license for this file to<=
br>
be GPL, but it appears to me that it is anyway. Should we ask for the<br>
license to be updated with an exclusion for the configuration files?<br>
<br>
rb<br>
<br>
[1]: <a href=3D"https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-224" rel=3D"nor=
eferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-224<=
/a><br>
[2]: <a href=3D"https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/master/src/config.x=
ml" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen=
/blob/master/src/config.xml</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Ryan Blue<br>
Software Engineer<br>
Cloudera, Inc.<br>
<br>
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