From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 22 12:51:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17795 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA17701 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA16800 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:51:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28944; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:42:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970422214224.YP52248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:42:24 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flex vs. lex References: <3.0.1.32.19970422012343.007a5100@pop.pitt.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970422012343.007a5100@pop.pitt.edu>; from John Duncan on Apr 22, 1997 01:23:43 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Duncan wrote: > Get a copy of lex from gatekeeper? That'd be my idea because it won't put > GNU copylefts on all your stuff. Better get the facts before posting. First, flex originates from LBL. It's got a Berkeley-like copyright (big surprise). Second, even Bison (GNU's yacc rewrite) switched to no longer mandating the application of the GPL to the generated code, maybe a year or two ago. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)