Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.
Message-ID: <3971@looking.on.ca>
Date: 9 Aug 89 18:10:54 GMT
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In article <24559@genrad.UUCP> jpn@genrad.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>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

Tee-hee.  It's truly tempting.  Perhaps we'll see teams of people soon
writing "truly free(tm)" libraries for GCC, parser skeletons for Bison
and more.

It has always struck me as odd that when RMS's goal has been to remove
the issues of intellectual property politics and ownership from software,
his actual result has been to create vastly greater amounts of
political debate and lawyering.

One might be tempted to say, "get your lawyers off my software."
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473