A small ? a/b licensing issues
| From: | Joey | Date: | Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:30:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | A small ? a/b licensing issues | ||
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Not to rain on any parades, but I was looking around and noticed this:
excerpt from
http://www.gnu.org/manual/bison/html_chapter/bison_2.html#SEC2
Bison grammars can be used only in programs that are free software. This
is in contrast to what happens with the GNU C compiler and the other GNU
programming tools.
The reason Bison is special is that the output of the Bison utility--the
Bison parser file--contains a verbatim copy of a sizable piece of Bison,
which is the code for the yyparse function. (The actions from your
grammar are inserted into this function at one point, but the rest of the
function is not changed.)
As a result, the Bison parser file is covered by the same copying
conditions that cover Bison itself and the rest of the GNU system: any
program containing it has to be distributed under the standard GNU
copying conditions.
---- end excerpt
So, what a/b software that uses a "Qt/Open Source" type license? is that
GNU compatible?
Just a question...
--Joey Smith