Update of task #16666 (group administration):
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Follow-up Comment #15:
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[comment #14 comment #14:]
> So I did, I generated a new Doxyfile file with only the parameters needed,
> keeping the copyright (myself) and the licence (expat).
Thank you; approving.
> Also, the [https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/blob/master/src/doxygen.cpp#L11
> doxyfile.cpp file] says that the documents produced are not affected by the
> doxygen's license.
It says, exactly,
Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative works derived from the
input used in their production; they are not affected by this license.
Perhaps this refers to the documentation doxygen extracts from the source
code. The configuration file Doxyfile contains many comments that are clearly
not derived from the input.
> And the link you provided says so too:
>> The output of a program is not, in general, covered by the copyright on the
>> code of the program.
In general, not; but
The exception would be when the program displays a full screen of text and/or
art that comes from the program.
> So I have a licensing problem, right? Because I'm including a file with a GPL
> license in a package with an Expat license.
This made the licensing more complicated, but it didn't make the result
proprietary. If it was a part of combined work with other parts released
under the GPL, it meant that as a whole the work was under the GPL; however,
the users could extract the permissively licensed parts and use them in
permissively licensed programs.
> Also, what about the project history in my git repository, which has commits
> that were not properly licenced-copyrighted? AFAIK no one visits it apart
> from you and me, but should I remove that history and re-upload it so that
> each commit has a valid licence+copyright?
We generally don't ask to eliminate such things from history; we treat them
like ordinary bugs.
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