GNU Manifest

Roland McGrath rk9005 at cca.ucsf.edu
Fri Apr 1 14:23:12 AEST 1988


C programs generated by Bison are at least in part derivitive works.
Most of the output of a Bison or Yacc parser is the parser skeleton,
which is copyrighted material belonging to FSF (or AT&T in the case of Yacc).

I don't know what all the legalities are, but I know it is not the
intention of FSF to make all binaries made by GNU be FSF property.
(Well, RMS would like everything everywhere to be free, but he's
not into forcing this on people.)

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