Le 12 mars 09 à 16:25, David Wootelhoff a écrit :
On 3/6/09, David Wootelhoff <wootelh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
I'm considering using a Bison generated parser in a closed source
commercial product.
I see that the C file output by Bison has a section starting "As a
special exception" which refers to "the Bison parser skeleton". Does
this paragraph mean I can modify yacc.c itself (which I understand is
the skeleton) and still keep my generated parser closed source? My
initial interpretation was that this was indeed the case, but I see
that yacc.c itself only contains the standard GPL notice and no
"Special Exception". (I'm aware that the special exception definitely
applies to the bison generated C file).
I'd like to use Bison with a modified skeleton but I don't want to
violate the GPL. Any clarification is much appreciated.
Hi, does anyone know the answer to the above question, or have any
hints about how I might find it?
I'm unsure if the question is so trivial that no-one is interested in
answering it, or so difficult that people can't answer it ;)
Hi David,
We need to know whether this package of yours is a parser generator
(in which case there is a very specific clause in the license). And
I'm curious about the nature of the changes you'd do in the skeleton
(but answering this question is not important).
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