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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Yacc -p<NAME> is broken
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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