From 93318529c91a600a2df71c9c8d942879cf6ae6bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Bradshaw Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:50:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify license position with respect to compilation output. --- COPYING.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/COPYING.txt b/COPYING.txt index 8e7130083b4..1a05a211a01 100644 --- a/COPYING.txt +++ b/COPYING.txt @@ -10,3 +10,10 @@ made to go from Pyrex to Cython are so licensed. See LICENSE.txt for more details. +------------------ + +The output of a Cython compilation is NOT considered a derivative +work of Cython. Specifically, though the compilation process may +embed snippets of varying lengths into the final output, these +snippets, as embedded in the output, do not encumber the resulting +output with any license restrictions.