The GPL "Special Exception" and yacc.c

2009-03-06 Thread David Wootelhoff
Hi, 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 t

Re: The GPL "Special Exception" and yacc.c

2009-03-12 Thread David Wootelhoff
On 3/6/09, David Wootelhoff 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

Re: The GPL "Special Exception" and yacc.c

2009-03-18 Thread David Wootelhoff
On 3/17/09, Akim Demaille wrote: > 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). Hi