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From: gemini@homxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Public Domain (?) Yacc (Important) [I TOLD the NET SO!!]
Message-ID: <2367@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 05:33:36 EST
Article-I.D.: homxb.2367
Posted: Sun Feb  8 05:33:36 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 04:02:44 EST
References: <142@ems.UUCP> <464@yetti.UUCP> <1186@husc6.UUCP>
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Organization: PC Research, Inc.
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Summary: Think about it this way

In article <1186@husc6.UUCP>, ddl@husc6.UUCP (Dan Lanciani) writes:
> In article <464@yetti.UUCP>, oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
> > 	The discussion of this so-called PD Yacc comes and goes thru
> > 	this net, and *every time*, until I am blue in the face, I remind
> > 	people that it is *the* UNIX yacc, broken to little pieces so
> > 	that it could compile under DECUS C compiler. I saw this program
> > 	eons ago, on an RSX-11 tape. Some ignorabilis decided to submit
> > 	it to DECUS, and it did not occur to DECUS to check.
> 
> 	Good, this confirms what I thought.  (In one sense.)  And it is
> still on the DECUS tape.  And it is sold.  And it is available to any
> individual who wants it.  And it has (and had) no copyright notice.  How
> can anyone claim that this is anything but public domain?  How can it
> possibly be proprietary?  

Jeez, listen to yourself.  Its like a bank robber stole a bag of
money.  Then decided to throw a party and just threw the money into
the air and a whole lot of people grabbed the money.  It's still stolen
money.  Christ, I can't believe people are trying to rationalize this
into a free copy of YACC.

Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134, (201) 834-1378
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