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From: rb@ccird2.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.legal
Subject: Re: lex and yacc in the public domain (while you debate..)
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Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 15:17:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 25 15:17:56 1986
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Summary: Itemised Liscences?

In article <359@yetti.UUCP> oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>
>	While this bizzarre discussion continues, someone in the crowd
>	opens up the latest Dr. DOBB'S journal, and guess what !!!
>	SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY SELLING YACC AND LEX !! And for 50$, you get
>	the sources as well !!
>
>	I did get a copy of this Yacc from a friend who ordered it. 
>	[We have source license, so it is in safe hands!!]
>	It turns out that it is the *real* Unix Yacc, as it appeared
>	on an RSX-11 DECUS tape many years ago. [I do not know how
>	it made it into a DECUS tape..]
>
>	Thus:	[a] This guy knows something we don't.
>
>		[b] He doesn't know what he is doing. AT&T will probably
>		    sue his pants off, and win the day.
>
>		[c] He knows what he is doing. [win a suit on a
			technicality].

		[d] Perhaps he as negotiated a Licence for Lex
		    and Yacc ONLY.  AT&T could make a small fortune
		    selling itemized licences to various people
		    who want to sell the "pieces" of unix, but not
		    the whole system.  There are lots of unix like
		    functions that are not in public domain which
		    could net AT&T royalties of $5/copy in pure
		    royalties.  All they have to do is "collect
		    the rent".  Lots of "free lance authors" do
		    this.  Someone else can go through the expense
		    of marketing the material and the author gets
		    almost as much as if he tried to sell it direct.