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In the process of packaging octave-fixed [1] for Debian, we found a
licensing problem with a PDF file (fixed.pdf). This file contains the
following Copyright statement:
Copyright (C) 2004 Motorola Inc
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual
provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on
all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the same conditions as for modified
versions.
This file was produced from TeXinfo sources that are not available in the
tarball but can be found in the SVN repository [3]. The question is whether
we are allowed to distribute the said PDF file, in particular if the
original sources are lacking from the tarball.
Also, the TeXinfo source file contains scraps that are extracted from other
files (*.cc) distributed in the tarball. These files are released under
GPL-2+. Does that constitute a violation of the GPL?
[1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/fixed/index.html
[2]
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/fixed/doc/
Thanks,
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Rafael
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