License dilemma for diagrams

[Jo]

While adding license paragraphs to all the sources, I discovered a
dilemma.

Manufacturers of photographing equipment have no copyright on the
photographs taken by customers. Likewise developers of text or image
processing software have no copyright on text and images produced/
processed with the software.

But BobbinWork diagrams are defined with xml files. These files need
to embed a copy of the content of either openStitches.xml or
closedStitches.xml. These files however are part of the code and
should be protected by the licence. So what to do about the copyright
of assembled diagrams? I'm afraid lawyers would interpret those files
as derived works but users should have the right to make original
creations with their own copyright and license scheme even with above
mentioned files.

I'm not sure whether I can quickly adjust the code with some kind of
include mechanism keeping above mentioned xml files within the
executable jar file. As these files are not yet very stable such a
mechanism would also render old drawings of users incompatible with
new releases or make the implementation and versioning even more
complicated.

Any suggestion to solve this dilemma otherwise so I can publish the
code sooner?

[Jo]

The fog is slowly lifting, see http://code.google.com/p/bobbinwork/wiki/LicenceIssues