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Re: gEDA-user: licensing (GPL or otherwise) for hardware?

ldoolitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

of the GPLed material.  For an example of that process that
has some relation to the concern you raise, look at the parsers
generated by flex and bison.  The output of these programs include
both material you design, and GPLed stuff.  The two are intertwined,
necessarily covered by the GPL, so if you distribute the result
you are obligated to provide the source (at least to your customers,
see the GPL for full details), and that includes the stuff you wrote.


actually... this is not a good example.  And I quote:


/* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a
   Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
   This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation
   in version 1.24 of Bison.  */


endquote


or perhaps it is the perfect example in that it reflects what I think we should be doing.

-Dan



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