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Subject: Re: Public Domain Yacc (Important)
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Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 14:02:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 14:02:16 1987
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In article <3740@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
]Well, not by AT&T.  However, people should be aware that bison inserts
]a copy of the GNU copyright into every generated C file.  

Last time I looked at the bison sources, I couldn't find this
"feature".  I checked the include and lib files as well.  Perhaps he's
taken this out by now.

What would happen if your bison source contained a copyright notice
embedded in it?  Then there would be two copyright notices, and one of
them would have to be bogus.

  THEY
]SAY it is public domain.  MY feeling is that if anyone is to get sued,
]it is THEM, not ME!  Check out any micro magazine, they only distribute
]on MS_DOS format disks.

If you had reason to know that it wasn't in the public domain, then
you could get burned too.  If ATT is in the business of collecting
netnews, a note such as yours might be considered evidence that you
knew that the version was not pd.  Whether they'd go after you or only
after the company is another story, of course.

Robert^Z