Re: GPL, LGPL

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From: Arthur Kreitman
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 15:55

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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.



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