On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 04:05:26PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Dec 31, 2003, at 03:39, Branden Robinson wrote: > > >>Yes. But the output of TeX contains no creative elements from > >>texinfo.tex and therefore is not a derivate of texinfo.tex. > > > >What's a "creative element"? I see no language in the GNU GPL > >limiting the scope of its restrictions to such a thing. > > I assume a "creative element" is what makes for an original work of > authorship (as opposed to a mere listing of facts, like in Feist). While the matter appears to have been settled thanks to an upstream license clarification by the Texinfo maintainers, I can only see your point as materially affecting the argument if texinfo.tex is regarded as containing no creative elements. Such a statement would probably not go unchallenged by the FSF. -- G. Branden Robinson | One doesn't have a sense of humor. Debian GNU/Linux | It has you. branden@debian.org | -- Larry Gelbart http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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