Re: GPL, Software licensing, Too Good to be True?

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From: Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 09:30

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In article <WCS.92Jan9192054@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:
>If memory serves me correctly, even AT&T now lets anybody include the yacc
>parser in yacc-derived code without requiring that the end-user have a
>Unix license - it placed too strong a restiction on the code people
>could write otherwise, and the market didn't like it.

So bison is now the only yacc compatible compiler compiler that has
restrictions for the use of the code it generated ? Isn't that sort of
paradoxical ?

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                      neeri@iis.ethz.ch
  If Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, whom did they name Linda after ?

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Subject: Re: GPL, Software licensing,  Too Good to be True?
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