bug#57399: etiquette / GPL question

2022-08-25 Thread Terence Kelly
Hi, I'm preparing a publication about a software tool (call it the "Munger"), and I would like to use GNU grep as an example of how the Munger can be used. I'm writing to ask how to address the requirements of GPL in the context of my somewhat unusual undertaking. I want to obey the lette

bug#57399: etiquette / GPL question

2022-08-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 8/24/22 22:55, Terence Kelly wrote: (Plan Zero)  Write a little shell script that (a) downloads the grep-3.7 tarball, (b) unpacks it, (c) applies a small patch to a single .c source file, which adds roughly ten new lines of code, (d) builds the grep executable by calling ./configure, make, a

bug#57399: etiquette / GPL question

2022-08-25 Thread Terence Kelly
Hi Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. I'll probably run a draft of my work by you, to offer you the opportunity to comment further, probably in a few weeks. Shall I cc: Jim Meyering too? -- Terence On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, Paul Eggert wrote: On 8/24/22 22:55, Terence Kelly wrote: (Plan Ze

bug#57399: etiquette / GPL question

2022-08-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 8/25/22 10:25, Terence Kelly wrote: Shall I cc: Jim Meyering too? Yes please.