Re: [Boost-build] bjam 4.0.. in C++

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bjam 4.0.. in C++
From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-16 08:21:13

On 6/15/2010 6:53 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 14:41:38 Philipp Thomas wrote:
>
>   
>> * Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden]) [20100523 17:55]:
>>
>>     
>>> And I generally want to stay away from GNU (and the GPL).
>>>       
>> I can understand that, given that including bison/flex generated code puts
>> the complete code under GPL.
>>     
> Isn't there an exception?
>   

According to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF there is
for Bison:

As it happens, Bison can also be used to develop non-free programs. This
is because we decided to explicitly permit the use of the Bison standard
parser program in Bison output files without restriction. We made the
decision because there were other tools comparable to Bison which
already permitted use for non-free programs.

flex appears to be under a BSD license.