On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:58:17PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:50:54AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > The "source code" for the documentation is embedded as comments in the
> > > program source code, in a doxygen-like way.
> > >
> > > Trolltech has not, to my knowledge, released the tool they use to
> > > generate the HTML from the comments.
> >
> > Then we do indeed have (yet again) a non-redistributable Qt bundle -
> > the GPL explicitly includes such tools as 'source', with the singular
> > exception that it doesn't include things normally shipped with the
> > operating system (like generic compilers).
>
> The GPL says:
>
> "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
> making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
> code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
> associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> control compilation and installation of the executable."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> (If there's some other rationale for "the GPL explicitly includes such tools
> as 'source'", I missed it.)
I was referencing the ^^^ed part. That sentence reads to me as 'the
build system', and such a tool smells like part of the build system.
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