Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 89 20:16:39 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <1989Oct18.080236.23848@rpi.edu> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Distribution: gnu Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 24 In-reply-to: sja@sirius.hut.fi's message of 19 Oct 89 11:03:11 GMT In article sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes: Here are a couple of quotes from article <330@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> posted to news.admin and gnu.misc.discuss: [From Usenet document "Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies":] The writer of the article [not the author of the ANH doc] says: I am informed that the addtional sentence was written by either Len Tower or Richard Stallman. That supposition of authorship was incorrect, as was pointed out in further discussion. Also, that sentence has been changed, in response to a request from the FSF. I remember seeing an article saying that if a bison input file uses bison-specific features the input file falls under the GNU copyright. You may have seen such an article, but it didn't express a complete understanding of the GNU copyleft. There's a lot of that going around :-) A Bison-generated parser is considered a derivative work of Bison, and is therefore subject to the copyleft. Your source code (Bison input file, MIDI patch, etc.) is your own.