Hi, Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 16:02:13 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Am I misunderstanding what you're saying? octave2.9-htmldoc contains > > this exact documentation that upstream is distributing. > > Yes, but built from source, and the source of octave2.9-htmldoc contains > the texinfo source. qtoctave doesn't, which is a breach of the GPL: you > must be able to distribute the preferred form of modification, and not > having it in the upstream sources - even when we know where they come from > - makes it delicate for us to distribute it. > > In other words, any users should be able to do > > apt-get source qtoctave > > and modify the documentation, which is not possible as the texinfo source > is missing. I'm one of Octave's Debian maintainers. The problematic part is that qtoctave is primarly a Windows application. I don't think they even have any sort of code for generating the HTML files from the Texinfo sources, so even including the texinfo files would still be a violation. Maybe they should just update the documentation and use the HTML files from [1]. I think the files there have a more liberal license. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/ Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
