Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!smh From: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal Subject: Re: yacc: public domain? Message-ID: <3391@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 22:06:59 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3391 Posted: Sat Jan 5 22:06:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:11:52 EST References: <6779@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2114@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1276@orca.UUCP> <288@desint.UUCP> Reply-To: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 3 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:11375 net.legal:1211 Re reverse engineering: a fairly detailed description of the Yacc state machine is given in at least one of the standard Yacc references -- see "man yacc" -- so the *algorithm* can hardly be called a trade secret.