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Subject: Re: Software Licensing; the GNU GPL and EPICS
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Techtalk <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:35:38 -0600
Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> 
> just a question: What about the GNU Bison stuff that is distributed as
> part of the EPICS base?

1. EPICS base does not contain GNU bison, we had switched to using
antelope (which IIRC has a BSD license) by about version R3.11.

2. The bison license gives explicit permission for non-free software to
use those parts of itself that are included in its output, so we probably
could use bison to build EPICS base as long as we don't include it in the
tar file but instead require sites to install it for themselves.  I don't
think this will ever happen though.

- Andrew
-- 
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


References:
Re: Platform independent Gui toolkits john sinclair
Re: Platform independent Gui toolkits Korhonen Timo
Software Licensing; the GNU GPL and EPICS Andrew Johnson
Re: Software Licensing; the GNU GPL and EPICS Benjamin Franksen

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