Re: Flex and GNU (fwd)

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 05:55

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In Reply to this Note From: <Joe Wells>
>For that matter, you can write your own version of the bison parser
>skeleton that uses the same tables.

One should mention that although yacc (and bison) is a very complex
algorithm, the skeleton portion is rather simple.  I have heard some
noise suggesting that bison.simple is public domain, as opposed to
bison.hairy being covered by the GPL.  Is this true?  If so, the
commercial developer need simply to use bison.simple, and have no fear
of releasing his trade secrets.  -David-

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