On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:21:59AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > * Though it's generally a good thing that the GPL requires me to > provide source, this requirement gives less benefit in the case of > text and can have some unpleasant consequences. For example, if > someone makes a derived work from my GPL work and "typesets" it using > Microsoft Word and I want to distribute a modified version of that > derived work, then the other person can quite reasonably claim that > the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" is a > Microsoft Word document, which would be highly inconvenient for me. This is why, when using the GPL for things which are not clearly program source code, you must always specify what the preferred form for modification is (append it to the license declaration, which should be just below the copyright declaration). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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