Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!udel!mmdf From: mmdf@udel.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: File: "MINIX-L MAIL" being sent to you Message-ID: <553@louie.udel.EDU> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 22:43:01 EDT Article-I.D.: louie.553 Posted: Thu Oct 1 22:43:01 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 06:47:57 EDT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 49 Received: from NDSUVM1(MAILER) by FINHUTC (Mailer X1.25) id 4157; Fri, 02 Oct 87 04:36:54 FIN Received: by NDSUVM1 (Mailer X1.24) id 9223; Thu, 01 Oct 87 21:29:31 CDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by WISCVM.WISC.EDU ; Thu, 01 Oct 87 21:25:23 CDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa00543; 1 Oct 87 21:58 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa00423; 1 Oct 87 21:50 EDT ARPA: usenet@udel.EDU, UUCP: ...{harv Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. Message-ID: <272@usl> Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Date: 30 Sep 87 20:33:39 GMT Reply-To: INFO-MINIX@UDEL.EDU Sender: Minix operating system Comments: Warning -- RSCS tag indicates an origin of SMTP@WISCVM From: Eric Lee Green Subject: Re: yacc and/or lex for minix? X-LSVRepTo: X-LSVopts: NOACK Org=MINIX-L@NDSUVM1 X-LSVvia: MINIX-L@NDSUVM1 X-LSVTo: info-minix@UDEL.EDU To: $PEER$ in article <477@bms-at.UUCP>, stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) says: > The source for 'bison' is available free from GNU (Free Software > Foundation). Hopefully Austin is suppling binary and the $25 is > a porting fee, otherwise they are violating the copyleft. Read the copyleft again. As long as you provide the full source code (including any porting modifications, which become property of the FSF and thus come under the terms of the license), as well as the object code, and do not attempt to prevent any further distribution, the GNU licensing agreement allows you to charge everything you think the market will bear. RMS mentions, either in the GNU Manifesto or the licensing agreement, that there may spring up services which advertise and duplicate GNU and charge a software fee for doing so, but as long as they didn't consider GNU software to be proprietary and attempt to restrict distribution, or remove his copyright notices/license agreements, that was fine with him... To recap: The "free" in "Free Software Foundation" means that you are free to do anything you want with the software, with the understanding that you must provide full sources (including any modifications), you cannot in any way attempt to restrict further redistribution, and you cannot remove FSF's notices. -- Eric Green elg@usl.CSNET from BEYOND nowhere: {ihnp4,cbosgd}!killer!elg, P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 {akgua,killer}!usl!elg "there's someone in my head, but it's not me..."