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From: clay@uci.UUCP (News Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.
Summary: Products based on Bison, yacc, lex, .....
Message-ID: <170@uci.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 14:17:35 GMT
References:  <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <24559@genrad.UUCP>
Organization: Unified Communications Inc., Minneapolis
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In article <24559@genrad.UUCP>, jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) writes:
> >> If I use BISON to create a compiler, is that compiler governed by the GNU
> >> liscence?
> >
> 
> OK.  Who wants to write a BISON-compatible parser skeleton that is REALLY
> freely distributable?  Make sure you put in a copyright that prevents the
> GNU copyright from being added (This is getting silly!)
>      john nelson
> 
At Usenix in Denver a while back, Steven Bourne mentioned something about how
much AT&T missed out revenue-wise in not charging for products created using
yacc and lex.

Sometimes the things we don't think about are kinda scary.

Yes, this is getting silly.

-- 
Clayton Haapala                ...!mmm!dicome!uci!clay
Unified Communications Inc.
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