ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest
Chris Gonnerman
at tree.uucp
Sat Oct 6 11:35:40 AEST 1990
In a very well stated article <2020 at sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
(Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> Don't use bison or the (still in beta) FSF library if you want to keep
> your code to yourself.
> --
> bill davidsen - davidsen at sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
Exactly. This is pure foolishness on the part of FSF... I might use their
stuff if it didn't bind quite so tight. IMHO, a compiler-designer cuts his or
her own throat when the compiled code is considered covered by copyright. What
does that buy you? I won't use a compiler that requires me to insert an extra
copyright statement next to mine, or restricts how I use, sell, or give away
the resulting program.
Of course, I don't use GNU stuff if I don't have to anyway... it fails to
compile on my plain-vanilla Motorola Unix SysV too often. The porting effort
to get the "standard" GNU sources to compile on my system is usually much
harder than porting MS-DOS programs!
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