From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,63c933060b5591b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 11:44:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcement: Finite State Editor Date: 05 Jun 2001 21:30:19 +0100 Organization: CodeFella Message-ID: References: <9f7i8s$rpc1@news.kvaerner.com> <3B1BF026.CF8D673@online.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 991853015 nnrp-12:15691 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jun 2001 20:30:22 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8251 Date: 2001-06-05T20:30:22+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" 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