Claus Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Branden Robinson schrieb/wrote: > > Yes, though it should be kept in mind that the GPL-incompatibility > > problem remains. We *still* won't be able to drop hunks of these > > manuals into their corresponding programs as on-line documentation, > > unless the same text happens to already exist somewhere else under the > > GNU GPL. > > So info can't display non-GPL documentation either? > > Sorry, but that's plain wrong. For a GPL program including an online > help viewer or calling an external help viewer, the online help is just > "data" that does not have to match the licence of the program.
That is _not_ what he meant. He meant cut/paste docs from the manual into the software to have it displayed either as a tooltip or otherwise. The documentation needs to become an intrinsic part of the code to do that. As for `So info can't display non-GPL documentation either?', well sometimes I wonder about that too. The info file provides computed information to let reader program know where the information resides, and what information resides there, much like a library. The reader hooks into those. How different this is from using a library (for some random purpose) whose license is incompatible, I'm not sure. Peter
