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Article #62909Legalities of redistributing bison and GNU make?
From: Michael Flaster
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 00:00
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I'm interested in developing some software which I do not wish to put under the GPL. I have 2 questions: 1. If I wish to distribute my source code, and I want to distribute some makefiles which work under gmake but not make, is that legal? Can I also include a distribution of GNU make? As far as I can tell from reading the license, (although I'm most certainly not a lawyer), I can include an executable of GNU make, as long as I also include the complete source distribution. 2. bison and flex: Am I allowed to release an executable that was generated from bison and flex? I seem to recall that an executable generated by gcc could be released under any license, and so I imagine the same would be true of an executable generated from bison and flex, but once again, I'm not at all sure. I imagine that the question as to whether I could release the source grammars with executables for bison and flex would be answered the same way that #1 would be... If there's some legal FAQ which explains the license, without being written for lawyers, I'd appreciate some pointers... Thanks a lot! Mike
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,aa3e7fed5b4b213e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: flaster@panix.com (Michael Flaster) Subject: Legalities of redistributing bison and GNU make? Date: 1995/04/04 Message-ID: <3lrmd1$jka@panix2.panix.com> X-Deja-AN: 100837899 organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss