Re: Bison Success Stories?

[Marc Autret]

"Pascal Bart" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> > My company is using Bison on a project for a very particular customer.  If 
> > we use non-commercial software we have to somehow 'prove' that the software 
> > works (because if it doesn't they have no one blame, it's stupid, I know).
> > The best way I can come up with to show that Bison is the reliable tool I 
> > know it to be is to list some commercial applications where Bison is used, 
> > preferably something with a safety aspect to it.
> 
> but I would to remember you that Bison generated parsers are under GPL 
> license,
> so it cann't be include in a commercial application, because GPL source code
> can _only_ be used in a GPL application, for more information see

>From bison.simple :

/* As a special exception, when this file is copied by Bison into a
   Bison output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
   This special exception was added by the Free Software Foundation
   in version 1.24 of Bison.  */

-- 
Marc Autret