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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: BISON is not PD! (was Re: Too many states for YACC)
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Date: 18 May 89 14:18:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: rbj@dsys.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim)

In article <19628@adm.BRL.MIL>, rbj@dsys (Root Boy Jim) writes:
|		     Perhaps you should get GNU's BISON, a P.D. YACC.

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GNU BISON is not "public domain" (unless you meant something else by
PD).  GNU BISON is *free*, but protected by the GNU COPYRIGHT, which
requires that it *remain free*.  This is not true with your typical PD
stuff (you can legally incorporate PD stuff into your for-hire work
and call it your own, for example).

The text of the GNU COPYRIGHT (which they call "COPYLEFT") can be
obtained from gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu (I hope I got that right...)

I'm picky about this, because I really appreciate what the Free
Software Foundation is up to, and I don't want misinformation spread
around.

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