Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 17:48:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: terry@lambert.org, archie@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yacc -p<NAME> is broken Message-ID: <199612070048.RAA24781@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961206190548.16014C-100000@carrier.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Dec 6, 96 07:09:56 pm
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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. > Let me quote the part I think is relevant from the COPYING file from bison > 1.25: See Nate's reply. The rote code coming out for the y.tab.c equivalent used to have a GNU "Copyleft" notice in it. This is because the code produced is not entirely output; it also includes static information stuffed in there by bison itself. The static information was what was in question. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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