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Re: ChangeLog licensing issues
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> Quoting "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
>
> > I suggest you recalibrate your understanding of the scope of copyright to
> > be less expansive rather than supposing it to apply to "file names,
> > function names and identifiers".
>
> But if identifieres were OK, wouldn't that mean that auto-generating
> documentation that shows hook names along with argument types and names
> are also OK?
I do not see any copyright issues with the hook names and argument types
and names. With the bodies of the descriptions of the semantics of the
hooks (in .texi or comments), yes, but not with the names and types of
hooks and their arguments.
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Joseph S. Myers
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