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Mix GNU GPL and MIT

Open D504 opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Some of source files are marked two licences at the same time. For example: GLSL.tab.c GLSL.tab.h

How can it be? Which parts of files are GPL-licensed? Which parts of files are MIT-licensed?
May be I just don't understand licences, but GNU GPL is a viral license.

D504 avatar Jun 09 '16 10:06 D504

I Am Not A Lawyer, but this particular source appears to contain a special exception allowing them to license it under the MIT license, since the original work was used to create a parser, not a modified parser-generator.

Connicpu avatar Jun 09 '16 17:06 Connicpu

See http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Conditions.html

mseddon avatar Jun 11 '16 11:06 mseddon