Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 17:45:41 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yacc -p<NAME> is broken Message-ID: <199612070045.RAA23269@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961206190548.16014C-100000@carrier.eng.umd.edu> References: <199612062301.QAA24585@phaeton.artisoft.com> <Pine.OSF.3.95.961206190548.16014C-100000@carrier.eng.umd.edu>
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> > I'm using yacc instead of bison because of the GPL. The yacc/bison > > grammar->code reduction includes code distributed with the tool. For > > bison, this code is GPL'ed. For yacc, it is not. I don't want the > > resulting code to be GPL restricted about how I can use it, therefore > > I use yacc. > > Terry, I will be the first to admit I'm no lawyer, but I thought that the > output from bison was not in itself GPL'ed, just the bison code > itself. Actually, until recently the output from bison was GPL'd, but they changed it b/c nobody was using bison or somesuch. Nate
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