Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!nis!dicome!uci!clay From: clay@uci.UUCP (News Administrator) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. Summary: Products based on Bison, yacc, lex, ..... Message-ID: <170@uci.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 14:17:35 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <24559@genrad.UUCP> Organization: Unified Communications Inc., Minneapolis Lines: 23 In article <24559@genrad.UUCP>, jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson) writes: > >> If I use BISON to create a compiler, is that compiler governed by the GNU > >> liscence? > > > > OK. Who wants to write a BISON-compatible parser skeleton that is REALLY > freely distributable? Make sure you put in a copyright that prevents the > GNU copyright from being added (This is getting silly!) > john nelson > At Usenix in Denver a while back, Steven Bourne mentioned something about how much AT&T missed out revenue-wise in not charging for products created using yacc and lex. Sometimes the things we don't think about are kinda scary. Yes, this is getting silly. -- Clayton Haapala ...!mmm!dicome!uci!clay Unified Communications Inc. 3001 Metro Drive - Suite 500 "Revenge is better than Christmas" Bloomington, MN 55425 -- Elvira