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Re: Why I do not support GNU

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1989 20:16
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In article <SJA.89Oct19130311@sirius.hut.fi> sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes:
   Here are a couple of quotes from article <330@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
   posted to news.admin and gnu.misc.discuss:

      [From Usenet document "Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies":]

   The writer of the article [not the author of the ANH doc] says:

      I am informed that the addtional sentence was written by either
      Len Tower or Richard Stallman.

That supposition of authorship was incorrect, as was pointed out in
further discussion.  Also, that sentence has been changed, in response
to a request from the FSF.

   I remember seeing an article saying that if a bison input file uses
   bison-specific features the input file falls under the GNU copyright.

You may have seen such an article, but it didn't express a complete
understanding of the GNU copyleft.  There's a lot of that going around :-)

A Bison-generated parser is considered a derivative work of Bison, and
is therefore subject to the copyleft.  Your source code (Bison input
file, MIDI patch, etc.) is your own.
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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU
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Date: 19 Oct 89 20:16:39 GMT
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