Subject: Re: License??????????????
To: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 17:40:17 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: SGW46959M021 AT DAFFY DOT MILLERSV DOT EDU, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough DJ Delorie said:
> The GPL/LGPL applies if you link libgpp.a or libgpl.a, or use bison or
> flex, change go32's sources, or use any other GPL sources (like gcc's
  ^^^^


Are you sure about the status of flex here?  I just scanned
through the manual, and couldn't find ANY restrictions on the
code at all (at least certainly nothing like the bison
restrictions). 

I was under the assumption that any flex generated code was
freely distributable (just like any gcc generated code, ie. binary
executables, are freely distributable).

Therefore, a byacc/flex based program would be distributable
while a bison/flex one would not.

Am I missing something?


[btw, has anyone ported byacc to djgpp?]
mrc
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