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From: hansen@mips.UUCP (Craig Hansen)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.legal
Subject: Re: lex and yacc in the public domain (responses)
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Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 06:46:30 EST
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> > A couple weeks ago I asked whether lex and yacc, as distributed by Berkeley,
> > were protected ...
> > 
> > So I'm going to hunt for true public domain copies. (net.lang people: help?)
> 
> Rumor has it that GNU has some yacc-like freeware called BISON.

"wart" is a public-domain replacement for lex.
It is distributed as part of C-Kermit.


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