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Reword more carefully.
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@c some day we should @include version.texi instead of defining
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@c these values at hand.
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@set UPDATED 23 August 2008
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@set UPDATED 24 August 2008
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@set EDITION 3.0.3
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@set VERSION 3.0.3
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@c ---------------------
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@@ -881,9 +881,13 @@ code -- only about 7 lines long, too small for being significant --, and
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therefore the output is not a ``work based on @code{gperf}'' (in the
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sense of the GPL version 3).
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On the other hand, the output produced by @code{gperf} contains essentially
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all of the input file. Therefore the output is under the same license, with
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the same copyright holder, as the input that was passed to @code{gperf}.
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On the other hand, the output produced by @code{gperf} contains
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essentially all of the input file. Therefore the output is a
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``derivative work'' of the input (in the sense of U.S.@: copyright law);
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and its copyright status depends on the copyright of the input. For most
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software licenses, the result is that the the output is under the same
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license, with the same copyright holder, as the input that was passed to
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@code{gperf}.
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@node Options, Bugs, Description, Top
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@chapter Invoking @code{gperf}
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