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 ;) Regards, David _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
