[OS X TeX] Flashmode-TS 2.1 - a complaint

[Claus Gerhardt]

I do not concur with Fernando's Pereira's conclusions that I violated  
the spirit of the GPL License. But before this whole discussion is  
getting out of bounds let me announce that Richard Koch will  
implement the modification officially so that this point will be moot.

Claus


On May 23, 2005, at 20:01, Fernando Pereira wrote:

>
> On May 23, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Paolo Ghirardato wrote:
>
>>> Flashmode-TS now works with TeXShop/TeXShop under Tiger. A  
>>> modified TeXShop 2.03 application has to be used which can be  
>>> downloaded  independently from
>>>
>>> http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/texshop203mod- 
>>> G4.zip
>>> or
>>> http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/texshop203mod- 
>>> G5.zip
>>>
>>> The modification prevents the pdf window to come to front after a  
>>> refreshpdf command is issued. The G4 compilation will also run on  
>>> a G5 but not as smoothly as the G5 version in my own subjective  
>>> view.
>>>
>>> At the moment I consider the new combination (F-editor-previewer)  
>>> to be the best of the Flashmode variants which is mainly due to  
>>> OS 10.4, PDFKit and its superb implementation in TeXShop by  
>>> Richard Koch.
>>>
>
> Using the terms of section 2 of the GPL, this is not a "mere  
> aggregation", since it involves a modification of GPLed software to  
> work better with non-GPLed Flashmode-TS, and a distribution of the  
> modification in concert with non-GPLed code. I feel that this is at  
> least in spirit contrary to the intent of the GPL, and thus I would  
> not buy Flashmode-TS, even though I buy plenty of non-free software.
>
> -- F
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