In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Nicholas R. Markham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The rest of the package does not, strictly speaking, depend on the program > I'm considering GPLing; it could certainly be used without that program. > However, I'm not sure I could make the reverse claim, that the program > could be used without the rest of the package. Nothing would prevent it > from compiling or running, but since it uses as input files that are > output by some of the other programs, it wouldn't be able to do much. If it just reads the files that they produce, it's not a problem. For instance, you can write a GPLed program to decode MS Word files, or process the log messages of a proprietary program. -- Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
