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<
software, legal> A pejorative name for some versions of the
GNU project copyleft or
General Public License (GPL),
which requires that any tools or
application programs
incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on
the same terms as
GNU code. Thus it is alleged that the
copyleft "infects" software generated with
GNU tools, which
may in turn infect other software that reuses any of its code.
Copyright law limits the scope of the GPL to "programs
textually incorporating significant amounts of
GNU code" so
GPL is only passed on if actual
GNU source is transmitted.
This used to be the case with the
Bison parser skeleton
until its licence was fixed.
http://org.gnu.de/manual/bison/html_chapter/bison_2.html#SEC2.
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(1999-07-14)