From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: Flex/Byacc file naming question
Date: 28 May 2002 09:16:48 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote:
: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote:

: > Because Byacc isn't by GNU? Compare with what bison does.

: Just to throw in a nitpick: strictly spoken, flex isn't GNU either.
: It comes under the GPL, and it's supported to some extent by the GNU
: people (i.e. it's in their 'non-GNU free software' listing), but
: that's about it.

Ok. What I meant flex is GNU's lex and bison is GNU's yacc, in the
sense that's the ones GNU uses and shows us on the www pages. Exactly
what you, Hans-Bernhard, said (I think).

Byacc is somebody else's.


Right,

						MartinS