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Subject: Bison (was Re: Public Domain Yacc)
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 09:53:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 09:53:30 1987
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In article <3740@teddy.UUCP>, jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>> If you really want a pd yacc, "bison" is available from the Gnu
>> project, and you won't be vulnerable to a suit.

> Well, not by AT&T.  However, people should be aware that bison inserts
> a copy of the GNU copyright into every generated C file.

It WHAT??

> He [Stallman] feels that all new software in the world should be
> GNUware.

I'm not gonna dare use any GNU software if he's resorting to this sort
of subterfuge to sneak GNUware status into *my* code.  Or rather, only
for text stuff that I can check by hand (and belive me, I *will* check
by hand!).

> Anyway, I refuse to use any tool that makes such a restriction on
> it's use (even if such a restriction is totally unenforcable!)

Fersure.  Me too.  Probably lots of other people; this sort of thing
strikes me as rather shooting himself in the foot.  How come GNU Emacs
doesn't stamp a GNU notice (in whatever flavor of comments are
appropriate) on any file you edit with it??  (Probably because people
would almost certainly notice - with bison they probably won't.)

					der Mouse

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