Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!gatech!dcatla!holos0!lbr From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. Message-ID: <1989Jul31.161755.1309@holos0.uucp> Date: 31 Jul 89 16:17:55 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26695@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5303@ficc.uu.net> <26759@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed) Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA Lines: 22 There's a lot of confusion in this stuff. If I use BISON to create a compiler, is that compiler governed by the GNU liscence? Note that this is far different than creating a tool that itself incorporates some of the BISON code in it. I don't have BISON. My reading of the the Gnu-make liscense is that if you incorporate the code into anything, it's covered, but if you use gmake as a tool to build something, that something is not covered. If I write a book using an IBM PC and Wordperfect, that book is NOT a derivative work of IBM or WPCorp. I can't imagine how GNU could write an _enforcable_ license agreement for their products that covered works built by using (as oppossed to derivative of) their products. Disclaimer: I'm no attorney, and my opinions on these matters are rank speculation. My opinions are worth what you paid for them. -- Len Reed Holos Software, Inc. Voice: (404) 496-1358 UUCP: ...!gatech!holos0!lbr