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. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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