License for code which generates code
Andy
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Sat Jul 19 13:07:34 UTC 2008
edA-qa mort-ora-y wrote:
> Anybody ever see this special wording/clause for Bison?
According to
<http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_mono/bison.html#Conditions>
it would appear the special clause is placed into Bison's output file.
Having never used Bison I can't be sure.
If you download the Bison source and look at the file
examples/calc++/calc++-parser.cc you'll find the following beneath the
GPL license grant:
> /* As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains
> part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work
> under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a
> parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof
> as a parser skeleton. Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute
> the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this
> special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting
> Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public
> License without this special exception.
>
> This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation in
> version 2.2 of Bison. */
I think that license only applies to the parser skeleton, not the rest
of Bison.
Andy
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