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In article <BURLEY.91Jan29112636@geech.ai.mit.edu> burley@geech.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
[ about the CopyLeft ]
>If he said people "couldn't use FSF software..." then he was most likely
>wrong.  They can USE FSF software, except I think for bison and flex (since
>they produce output with their own code inserted), they just can't incorporate
>FSF software into their own (creating a "derived work") and then distribute
>it without honoring the GPL.

Craig:-

Repeat after me...
Flex is not GNUware.  Flex is not GNUware... Flex is not GNUware...
[you get the picture]

Flex was developed by Vern Paxson while he was at Lawrence Berkeley
Labs.  It is the New Berkeley Lex.  So far as I can tell, GNU uses it
because it's the best lex available, and it would be pointless to
write a new one when so much work has been put into it, Furthermore,
the Flex documents (at least for 2.1 and 2.3) specifically state that
the Flex skeleton (flex.skel) is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, and not even
bound by New Berkeley terms.  Thus, anyone--even "software
hoarders"--can use Flex in their programs.

We now return regularly scheduled programming...

-GAWollman

Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.