Re: Version 3.39 of the Lout document formatting system now available

[Jeff Kingston]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:49:14PM +0200, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
> 
> >    Added copyright notices to many files, to satisfy the Savannah
> >      people.  There is no change in what is permitted.  Files that
> >      go to make up an output file are either public domain or else
> >      carry this additional wording, supplied by the Savannah people:
> >      "As a special exception, when this file is read by Lout when
> >      processing a Lout source document, you may use the result
> >      without restriction."
> 
> The Savannah and FSF volunteers kindly reviewed the Lout code and
> identified this loophole: without the special exception, Lout source
> documents would fall under the GPL, which wasn???t intended.

Fair point.  I did not mean to imply that the Savannah exercise
was not useful.  I wanted to lay to rest any worries that the
changes might prevent people from using Lout as they had before.

Jeff