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From: MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET (Jim McCabe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.misc
Subject: Legal uses of lex & yacc
Message-ID: <90049.104719MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 18 Feb 90 15:47:19 GMT
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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I've recently become familiar with lex and yacc, and am wondering about
the legal status of the code generated by these programs.  Is it legal to
use a yacc-generated compiler (and a lex-generated lexical analyzer)
for part of a public-domain software package?  For example, if I used lex
and yacc in a language interpreter I wrote, would it be permissable to
distribute my program freely over networks and such?  In the Sun lex and
yacc manuals, they never mention this at all, so I'm worried.  ;)


                                                Jim McCabe
                                                MCCABE @ MTUS5.BITNET