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Re: [Question]:Question about bison adding GPL copyright to the parser f
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Hans Åberg |
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Re: [Question]:Question about bison adding GPL copyright to the parser files generated by bison and yacc.c |
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Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:31:06 +0100 |
> On 21 Jan 2019, at 17:24, bird bravo <address@hidden> wrote:
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> I noticed that when I use bison and the parser skeleton(yacc.c) to
> generate a parser file... there will be a copyright notice to claim the
> file is a GPLV3 and an exception declaration... I wanna know is that OK to
> use and distribute the parser file as I wish..
Yes, see [1]. The copyright applies to the skeleton code which is copied over
to the generated parser, but there is an exception added for that.
1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Conditions.html