Nathan Scott wrote:
I'd guess Kens more thinking people will find it problematic to
use PCP, because they don't wish (for whatever reason) to release
code for custom PMDAs they write and ship to their customers.
Here's my 2c. genpmda was always intended to be a build tool
rather than a run-once code generator, though I don't think it
ever quite fullfilled that objective. In any case, IMO the tool
itself should be GPL and copyright SGI, but the generated code
should inherit the copyright from the config file written by
the developer, i.e. the augmented pmns supplied with the -c option.
So is generated code a derived work of the tool? In this case,
the generated code is mostly cat <<EOF from template listings
embedded in the tool itself. We have yacc, lex (and indeed the
GNU compiler tool chain itself) as examples here, where clearly
the generated code inherits neither the copyright or license
of the tool.
Cheers
-- Mark
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