From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Announcement: Finite State Editor
Date: 05 Jun 2001 21:30:19 +0100
Date: 2001-06-05T20:30:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7v7kyq7jqc.fsf@smaug.pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B1BF026.CF8D673@online.no
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"Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> writes:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> > Emacs is a text editor that is released under the GPL, yet its output is
> > perfectly usable with whatever license you care to use. Why is this different?
> > As long as you don't try to link against the editor itself, you should be OK.
>
> This is more similar to bison. I don't know the licensing implications
> of using bison these days, but the output used to be infected with a GPL
> virus.
No more.
Bison 1.28's bison.simple says
/* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a
Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation
in version 1.24 of Bison. */
-S
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-31 10:05 Announcement: Finite State Editor Christoph Grein
2001-06-01 8:03 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-06-01 18:33 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-04 20:31 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2001-06-05 20:30 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2001-06-14 18:07 ` Charles Hixson
2001-06-02 8:28 ` Florian Weimer
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2001-06-18 10:27 Christoph Grein
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