| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Andreas Pflug" <Andreas(dot)Pflug(at)web(dot)de>, pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] GPL code issue? |
| Date: | 2003-10-01 03:39:15 |
| Message-ID: | 25221.1064979555@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> In src/backend/parser/parse.h there is a copyright that reads as below.
> Note the bottom section that says that the GPL is only excepted for
> files generated by Bison *from* this file. This implies to me that this
> file is GPL'd,
No. The text in question is copied verbatim from some Bison component
file that supplies a lot of fixed boilerplate for Bison output files.
It's not very well phrased, perhaps, but their intent is clearly to
exempt Bison output files from the GPL, and this *is* a Bison output
file.
regards, tom lane
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