Re: Clarification about PDF file license
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:
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Not visible on this client. Guessing. Please state wishes in body.
[...]
> Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
> manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
> resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
> notice identical to this one.
[...]
> Also, the TeXinfo source file contains scraps that are extracted from other
> files (*.cc) distributed in the tarball. These files are released under
> GPL-2+. Does that constitute a violation of the GPL?
I can't identify which scraps were copied into fixed.txi from the links you
gave, but I think so and I think you need extra permission from the copyright
holders of the GPL-2+ scraps to release under this licence, or permission from
Motorola to release with parts under the GPL.
Hope that helps,
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