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From: chase@Ozona.orc.olivetti.com (David Chase)
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Subject: Re: GNU software rights
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Date: 4 Aug 88 22:45:54 GMT
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In article <24265@bu-cs.BU.EDU> tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
>The output of bison IS copylefted, because the parser source code the
>output contains is copylefted.

Pardon me if I'm missing something, but "bison.hairy" contains no
copyright notice, and this is the file included if "%semantic_parser"
is specified (of course, the output seems much less yacc-compatible
in this case).  As far as I can tell, this means that the output of
bison is in certain circumstances NOT copylefted, since it contains no
copyright at all.  Are you wrong, or am I misunderstanding something?

David