Emacs distributions are not GPL-compliant

It turns out that the Emacs 23.2 and 23.3 releases contain a number of parsers created with Bison, but the source for those parsers was not included. That has led Richard Stallman to say: "We have made a very bad mistake. Anyone redistributing those versions is violating the GPL, through no fault of his own. We need to fix those releases retroactively (or else delete them), and we need to do it right away." This state of affairs is clearly just a slip which will be fixed quickly, but it shows that anybody can make mistakes.

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