Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: increasing yacc states Message-ID: <4996@ficc.uu.net> Date: 13 Jul 89 22:41:00 GMT References: <8704@june.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <8704@june.cs.washington.edu>, pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes: > If you build a parser using a standard BISON skeleton and then link it > to a program that you distribute, then the sources FOR THE ENTIRE > PROGRAM must be freely distributable. This basically means that BISON is useless for commercial software developers. I once asked this same question about the run-time libraries for GCC, and was told that there was no such restriction. So, the question is: do BISON and GCC have different restrictions? If so, why? If not, what's the real story? I'm not saying Stallman is wrong to have a restriction like this, I'd just like to know what it means. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | Th-th-th-that's all folks... Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | -- Mel Blanc Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | May 30 1908 - Jul 10 1989