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From: mikko@titan.uucp (Mikko Tiusanen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)
Summary: Expand, please.
Message-ID: <23837@santra.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 09:02:58 GMT
References: <Jul.5.09.29.33.1989.23541@topaz.rutgers.edu> <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <5077@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <5077@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>, dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) writes:
>> First, being required to freely distribute code does not exactly
>> prevent you from using the compiler.
>
>If you're not a private hobbyist or a university (and not even always then)
>it sure does.
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Could you expand on why this does prevent from using it?  Given, of
course, that as far as I understand, you are allowed to charge
reasonable copying costs.

				Mikko Tiusanen

I'm just asking my own (stupid?) questions.