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How do you mean danger?? The body of the article is considerably less hysterical than the title.
by gaius 10y ago
How do you mean danger?? The body of the article is considerably less hysterical than the title.
- macmac 10y agoWhat is hysterical about the title i.e. "When is the output of a copyright-protected software program itself protected by copyright?" ?. Seems very appropriated and balanced.
- arca_vorago 10y agoI mean you won't find GNU projects doing stuff like this, but only in proprietary land do you find companies who think it's ok to copyright output. (which is a symptom of the bigger issue of culture around non-free software in general) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLOutput http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLOutput
- E6300 10y agoActually, the output of Bison is GPL'd on the same grounds as presented in this case, that a significant portion of it includes code from Bison itself. You can't link and distribute a Bison-generated parser with a non-GPL parser generator (for other kinds of programs, the license contains an exception that allows linking).