Re: GPL, LGPL

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From: Craig Burley
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 18:18

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In article <ARTK.95Mar3105505@cc-color1.Congruent.COM> artk@Congruent.COM (Arthur Kreitman) writes:

   In article <MAV.95Feb28152613@gaia.cc.gatech.edu> mav@gaia.cc.gatech.edu (Maurizio Vitale) writes:

   >   link in any portion of GNU code (including parser skeletons from
   >   bison) then you have to "provide" (see GPL for the meaning of this)
   >   the full source code of your application to all people getting it from

       I've heard this claim that linking with a bison output make your
   code completely subject to the gpl.  I'm wondering what the legal 
   foundation for that claim is.   To me, its always seemed to be an 
   unsupportable claim.

It's not so much the use of bison output, it's the inclusion of the
copyrighted parser skeleton.  You can write your own skeleton to
get around the problem, but apparently lots of people use some other
free yacc replacement that doesn't have all of bison's copyright
restrictions.
--

James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu

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From: burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley)
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Subject: Re: GPL, LGPL
Date: 03 Mar 1995 18:18:05 GMT
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