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- From: jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Message-ID: <5423@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 15:39:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com>
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- From article <1992Aug17.225116.20533@panix.com>, by tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon):
- >
- > I'm sorry, that's just stupid. Is this another reincarnation of the anti-FSF
- > propaganda line about "if you compile your code with GCC, it's covered by
- > copyleft!!!!"? That suggestion is patently false. The degree to which a number
- > of commercial software houses are frightened of the FSF is neatly displayed by
- > the persistence of this absurd rumor.
-
- Well, perhaps the rumor persists because of bison's and the bison.simple
- copyleft. I, for one, was aghast to find that a very restrictive copyleft
- generated by bison. (Restrictive to the point that I asked FSF what's going
- on and found that, yes, I could *not* use it at work without releasing all
- my code.)
-
- Note that Bob Corbet (bison's original author) "solved" the problem by
- allowing byacc (an improvement over bison) to be distributed outside the
- FSF channels. IMHO this addition to bison has been, and remains, frightening.
-
- PS Sorry for a non-bsd posting--except to point out that byacc is part of
- bsd these days.
-