Is anything local in groff?

2024-10-15 Thread Matthew Polk
I'm currently getting impression that everything is global in groff, except maybe when talking about environment, then it's bound to that environment. But is anything assuming the environment doesn't change is local? I ask because reading the heirloom-doctools manual, which is a very conservati

Re: Can or rather is a macro package be licensed?

2024-10-13 Thread Matthew Polk
Hi, thanks for the very swift and verbose response. :) I figured previously that it probably wouldn't be included in groff upstream at the time of this writing, but if there is a possibly of inclusion I am more than delighted to hand over copyright to maintainers (Which I believe is the FSF). I

Can or rather is a macro package be licensed?

2024-10-13 Thread Matthew Polk
I want to in the future sometime, submit a nice macro package I'm creating to savannah. However, can the macro package itself be licensed and if yes, you must also use the same license like other types of programs say python (Where if you import a GPL licensed script, that too must be GPL)? It c