[texinfo-pretest] Problems with spanish update

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Sun Jun 18 02:09:35 CDT 2006


[About UTF-8 support within texinfo.tex]

> > Also, I hate to ask this, but how much does "based" mean?
> 
> It means that I've taken the code, removed all `@' signs, adapted the
> macro names, and added some additional glue stuff so that it actually
> works.  With other words, it's directly derived.
> 
> > LPPL and GPL are not compatible :(.
> 
> Too late.  Well, do whatever you want to do with it.  I don't have
> time to rewrite the stuff.  You might use the utf-8 parser from my CJK
> package, which uses GPL.  Maybe you can ask Frank Mittelbach whether
> this code snippet can be licensed with both LPPL and GPL.

Another solution which I also use in groff (and which has been
approved by RMS): Move my UTF-8 extension into a separate file and
declare it as `not part of the texinfo project', but use it anyway.


    Werner


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