Re: Bug#183860: Many texi files under GFDL use texinfo.tex under GPL

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Simon Richter 

| Steve,
| 
| > > The image now in memory forms a derivative work, thus the executable
| > > must be under the GPL or linking the executable (i.e. running it)
| > > violates the library's license.
| 
| > No it doesn't, unless you try to distribute a dump of the in-memory
| > image. Repeat after me: "The GPL covers distribution, not use."
| 
| It could be argued that the Linux kernel's method of sharing memory
| mapped text pages between processes counts as distribution when two
| processes belonging to different users have the same executable along
| with shared libraries mapped into their address space. Okay, this is
| far-fetched but might work in a court.

So because of that, you have to have the sources of all GPL-ed
executables available to give to any user of your system?  I'm not too
sure that'll hold in court, but then again, IANAL.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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