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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:09:15PM +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > call libraries dynamically" does not apply, because the
> > embedded programs are output from the compiler, not
> > covered by the licence for source of the compiler/libraries.
>
> True for the compiler, not true for the libraries. The output is a
> 'derived work' (lawyer speak) of the libraries.

Have you considered what they do for GNU bison?  The output of bison
contains a significant chunk of bison itself, but there's an exception
which means that a program produced with bison doesn't have to be under
the GPL.

See src/parse-gram.c in the bison source for the text of the exception.

Chris

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