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From: stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GNU (as it applies to the ST)
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Date: 28 Dec 90 22:13:47 GMT
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> Bison is a special case, because a parser generated by Bison
> contains FSF source code which GCC in turn compiles.  Therefore the
> parser, and any program containing it, contains FSF source code and
> therefore is covered by the copyleft.


Fortunately, this mistake was not repeated with "flex" the lex clone.
According to the COPYING file that comes with flex, the skeleton
source code is fully public domain and any programs generated by flex
are not restricted by copyleft.  Personally, I think flex is
wonderful.

							stank

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