On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:06, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Referring to earlier postings which state that outputs from GPL programs > which include fragments of code from inside the GPL program mean that your > document generated by a GPL licenced formatting program is therefore > similarly GPL licenced? I shudder at that thought, because if it's true > than one cannot write a man page or any other document with a closed > copyright for a commercial product and format it to PostScript using > groff. Frankly imho that's nonsensical. Am I correct?
A "Fragment" in this sense is normally considered to be a large number of lines of code. For Bison for example, the code template is hundreds of lines long (iirc). The output of a program without "substantial copying" from the source of the program will not be licenced (except for any licence on the input). IANAL. Definitions of "large" and "substantial copying" left for those who know better. Later Lee
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