Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)

To: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards --GNU coding standards)
From: Mark Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
Date: 08 Apr 2002 00:56:36 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] xe1vgb2n5yz.fsf@swat.thok.org>
In-reply-to: Michael Banck's message of "Mon, 8 Apr 2002 01:22:51 +0200"
References: <20020407041806.GA9329@bluecherry.net> <[🔎] 87y9g0os29.fsf@pfaff.Stanford.EDU> <[🔎] 1018178089.858.29.camel@nenya> <[🔎] 1018199568.14182.5.camel@sanctus> <[🔎] 20020407192927.GA2968@celeron.dekkers> <[🔎] 1018217717.14764.6.camel@sanctus> <[🔎] 20020407232251.GA5645@gmx.net>

> How about: /usr/bin/latex is a program - my_neat_little_phdthesis.tex is
> a file?

Actually, /usr/bin/latex is an interpreter.
my_neat_little_phdthesis.tex *is* program code, even though the vast
proportion of the content will be literal text for output.  See Andrew
Greene's BASiX (BASIC interpreter in TeX) or the discussions of TeX
viruses from the same era if you're still unclear on this...


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