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From: msb@sq.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Lex and YACC C output
Message-ID: <1987Aug5.115824.22851@sq.uucp>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 11:58:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: sq.1987Aug5.115824.22851
Posted: Wed Aug  5 11:58:24 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 07:08:17 EDT
References: <7846@auspyr.UUCP> <166400004@uiucdcsb> <1385@epimass.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
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Checksum: 59653
Summary: I think you don't mean "public domain".

Joe Buck (jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM) writes:

> At the Winter, '87 Usenix, word was given by several AT&T people that
> AT&T officially declares yacc and lex output to be in the public
> domain.  I suggest that any business that needs to rely on this
> contact AT&T directly and get confirmation, but I feel the assurances
> I was given at Usenix are very solid.

Presumably what is really meant here is not "in the public domain",
but rather, "not AT&T proprietary".  I hardly think that if I run
some SoftQuad proprietary code through yacc it would cease to be
SoftQuad proprietary!

Please, people.  "Public domain" means that nobody has a copyright on it!

Mark Brader	  "I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pedantic and that's just as good."
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