Re: Licensing Issues

[Matthew D Swank]

> Subject:      Re: Licensing Issues
> From:         "M. Uli Kusterer" <Witness.of.TeachText@gmx.net>
> Newsgroups:   gnu.gnustep.discuss
> Date:         Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:30:05 +0100
>
> At 15:09 Uhr -0800 25.02.2005, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> >As for the GORM issues -- they are valid concerns
> >(which are shared for other FSF tools such as GNU
> >Smalltalk, etc.)  IIRC, Flex/Bison state explicitly
> >that the generated code is not subject to the GPL.
>
>   That is because they actually include part of *themselves* in the
> generated product. IIRC the GPL actually mentions somewhere in itself
> that output files aren't derivative works unless they include part of
> the GPLed application/code in them.
> --
> Cheers,
> M. Uli Kusterer
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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This is slightly of topic, but I am writing an original wrapper for 
PCRE. I am willing to assign copyright to the FSF, but PCRE itself has a 
different license (BSD) would my framework be a candidate for inclusion 
in GNUstep?

Matt