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? -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount; branden@debian.org | fsck;more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck; http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | umount;sleep
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