Paul Serice wrote: > What is legally binding is neither the text I quoted nor the text to > which you refer. Rather, it is the interpretation of the text to which > you refer (and possibly other documents) by a judge of competent > jurisdiction (or a similar decision maker). > > To my knowledge, there has been no such interpretation. So, I turn to > the next best thing: an interpretation in the text that accompanies the > license. I don't think this makes me silly.
It's pretty damn silly to turn to the manual for GDB for an interpretation of the GPL. The text you quoted is _not_ part of the GPL, nor is it commonly distributed with the GPL. It just happens to accompny the GPL in the GDB manual. -- see shy jo