[xsd-users] License and Portability

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Peter,

Peter Backes <rtc at cdl.uni-saarland.de> writes:

> The FSF has generally taken the position that you cannot claim 
> copyright of the output users generate with the help of your program, 
> except if that program copies some significant amount of its source 
> code into the output.

All of the output produced by the XSD compiler is copied from the XSD
compiler source code. There is no C++ code (or any other kind of 
programming language-like code) in the input (which is XML Schema).
So I believe we are in agreement with the FSF when we claim copyright
on the generated code.

Boris