Claus Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
But that's not what he meant! Please don't change what he said to fit your view. That would be a major inconvenience to do in elisp instead of simply insert the text in the code. > > 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? Difference between a code interpreter and a library. You have to consider the Info reader as an interpreter to get away with this. I suppose that's a correct analogy, so you can read non-free docs in Info. Peter
