Re: Questions about liblouis
I don't understand why requiring that translation tables should be
publicly available makes the software non-free. After all, isn't this
exactly what the GPL requires for code.
John
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:40:39PM +0000, John Halton wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> > 3. The translation tables that are read at run-time are considered
> > part of this code and are under the terms of the GPL. Any changes to
> > these tables and any additional tables that are created for use by
> > this code must be made publicly available.
>
> This fails the "desert island test", and so the package is non-free.
>
> John
>
> (TINLA)
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