On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:18:19AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > Many (all?) GNU texinfo manuals that are licensed under the GFDL do an: > > \input texinfo > > According to the comments at the top of texinfo.tex, texinfo is > licensed under the GPL, version 2 or later. > > The texinfo.tex file is an implementation of Texinfo. > Documents written in Texinfo can be licensed in any fashion; > they do not have to be licensed under the GPL. I'm sorry, but I am little confused. GNU readline is one implementation of the readline interface, which has also been implemented in the "editline" library, as I recall. But the FSF has objected in the past to programs which used the readline API being licensed in a manner incompatible with the GNU GPL (I believe I am thinking of ncftp in this instance[1]). Can you help me to understand the distinction between an executable using a shared library (which is functional material) and a TeX file using macros defined by another TeX file (which is also functional material)? Thanks for your time, and happy holidays. [1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2000-11/msg00049.html -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only branden@debian.org | outlaws will @goH7Ok=<q4fDj]Kz?. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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