...couldn't it be argued that html is also code? Steve
On Wed, December 7, 2005 8:55 am, Carl Cerecke wrote: > As usual, its not always as simple as it seems. The output of some > programs is also code. There was an issue here with bison and the GPL: > The code output from bison was covered under the GPL (because the code > was derived from a template file that was GPL), so any program using > that code would also have to be licensed under the GPL. This was fixed > by RMS with a special waiver for that particular file. About version > 1.24 I think. > > Cheers, > Carl. > > On 06/12/05, Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Volkers answer to the part of Nicks question about output from this code >> not >> being required to be licenced under the GPL. seems correct. >> >> Go to; >> >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput >> >> Cheers Ross Drummond >> >> On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:24, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> > It seems to me that people fail to distinguish between a public >> > performance of the output of some software (colourful lights at the >> > intersection) and the software itself. That's the point of the >> software >> > - produce output. There's no link between the rights to the software >> and >> > the rights to its output, although some authors try hard to establish >> > one. Their prerogative. As soon as you blur that distinction with >> > something like gimp, it'll be deader than a dodo. >> > >> >> > > -- Work like you don't need the money, Love like your heart has never been broken and Dance like no one can see you.
