Handling licences for generated files

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 9 de setembre de 2023, a les 14:58:39 (CEST), Johnny Jazeix va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> for the new project to translate subtitles for KDE videos, we generate
> subtitles files (srt files) from po files.
> 
> To generate the translated file, we use the original srt file (which
> is under the licence/copyright of the creator choose) and the po files
> written by the translators (some po files have licence and/or
> copyright, other none of it).
> 
> For the generated file, is there a constraint of licence/copyright due
> to how we create them (and from which data)?

Yes, generated files [must] have the license of the file they are generated 
from.

Imagine a GPL file, then you "generate" a new one by one space in front of the 
file, you can't decided to simply consider it to be CC-BY-SA-4.0 after doing 
that generation step, the file is still GPL.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Or could I simply consider all the generated files as CC-BY-SA-4.0
> with a generic copyright ("2023 This_file_is_part_of_KDE" for
> example)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Johnny