For Approval: Open Vendor Public License (OVPL) and Open Vendor Lesser Public License (OVLPL)

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Thu Jun 30 13:13:38 UTC 2005



--On 30 June 2005 14:00 +0100 Alex Bligh <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:

>> Perhaps you are thinking about the exception to the Bison product:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_mono/bison.html#Conditions
>
> That wasn't the one I was thinking of (I'm pretty sure it was
> in one of the licenses itself), but it is exactly the same problem.

I've found it - it's in the GPL after all (doh) - the bracketed bit
in:
	"Output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute
	a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by
	running the program). Whether that is true depends on what the
	Program does."

I think that gets someway there.

Alex



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