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Bug#183860: RMS's comment on this bug is mostly irrelevant. :-/



Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> Why do those who claim there is a copyright problem have to prove a
> negative?  Shouldn't it be the responsibility of those who claim their
> is no problem to show examples that undermine the claim that DVI output
> is a derivative work of texinfo.tex?

It looks like the issue may now become irrelevant.  Upstream texinfo just
added the following:

  % As a special exception, when this file is read by TeX when processing
  % a Texinfo source document, you may use the result without
  % restriction.  (This has been our intent since Texinfo was invented.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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