Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!euteal!mart From: mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <84@euteal.ele.tue.nl> Date: 20 Jul 89 08:03:42 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <5077@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 27 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: >> Stallman and the FSF have better things to do than sue people who try >> to use their products. Get real, we're not talking about Apple or >> Microsoft here. They don't even *have* a legal department. > >And if they're not willing or able to enforce the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC >LICENSE it's not worth the paper it's printed on. The fact that it exists >implies they're willing to do so. I guess it isn't worth the paper it is printed on anyway. It appears to me me the only way Stallman can protect his software is use the legal procedures and obtain himself the copyrights. By the way I'm not a real gnuru but if I'm not mistaking there is a copyright statement in the gnu files. Mart van Stiphout Eindhoven University of Technology Dept. of Electrical Engineering -- Room EH7.34 P.O.Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Email: mart@euteal.ele.tue.nl (Old-fashioned: mart@euteal.uucp or mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!euteal!mart) ------------------------------- It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop (seen on a wall in Down by law)