Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc Message-ID: <5616@ficc.uu.net> Date: 9 Aug 89 13:06:51 GMT References: <942@corpane.UUCP> <1989Aug8.221257.5506@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 In article <1989Aug8.221257.5506@agate.berkeley.edu>, mwm@consult.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: > Considing who first brought up the subject of privileged classes, > you're right. The propoganda in question is "You can't use copylefted > software to make money." You're right, that's the propoganda in question. I didn't say that you can't use copylefted software to make money. I said that you can't afford to use GCC or Bison for commercial software, because doing so may put your software under the copyleft. This is not the same statement. > This was, and remains, a lie. The only lie I see is your continual attempts to put words into my mouth by bringing up this straw man again and again and again. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"