magic and globs: License

[David Persson]

Hi,

I wrote a CakePHP plugin and since the framework itself is MIT licensed,
I chose that license for it too.

The plugin is going to include a php shared-mime parser and it would be
comfortable for the users to have the dbs packaged with it.

Now my question is:

Can I distribute the compiled globs and magic files from the shared-mime
package with this plugin?

There was a similiar question 4 years ago:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-March/001990.html

But for me it's unclear if the magic and globs files generated by
update-mime-database are counting as derivative works and are therefore
GPL'ed.

Anyway I really like the shared-mime spec. It's one of the best
solutions for mime type detection out there and was fun to (partially)
implement it!

-David
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