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



On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:40:50PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.)

Can we ask for upstream's permission to apply this exception to our
current version of texinfo, in the event a new upstream release is not
made before sarge releases?

Or is this necessary?  Can we just pull the new license file from CVS
and be done with it?

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