Peter S Galbraith schrieb/wrote: > Claus Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. It can be a seperate XML (or whatever) file that's only read by the software. > 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 same is basically true for HTML and XML documents. Can you have a free web browser display non-free web pages? Should Galeon (or Konqueror or ...) refuse to display the FSF's homepage because it is not GPL'd? Claus -- http://www.faerber.muc.de/ -- http://www.bayern-gewinnt.de
