Re: [Question]:Question about bison adding GPL copyright to the parser files generated by bison and yacc.c

Hans Åberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 21 Jan 2019, at 17:24, bird bravo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>    I noticed that when I use bison and the parser skeleton(yacc.c) to
> generate a parser file... there will be a copyright notice to claim the
> file is a GPLV3 and an exception declaration... I wanna know is that OK to
> use and distribute the parser file as I wish..

Yes, see [1]. The copyright applies to the skeleton code which is copied over to the generated parser, but there is an exception added for that.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Conditions.html



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