Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cithep.UucP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!cithep!tim From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: yacc: public domain? Message-ID: <71@cithep.UucP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 23:33:16 EST Article-I.D.: cithep.71 Posted: Fri Feb 1 23:33:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:44:07 EST Organization: Caltech HEP, Pasadena, CA Lines: 16 Isn't the operation of yaccpar described in various publicly accessable documents? Perhaps some kind yacc wizard could write a version, not using any AT&T code, and place it in the public domain. Then people could use that if they are worried. By the way, when is one "using" someone elses code? For example, let us say that I decided that I wanted to write a public domain yaccpar. So I look at /usr/lib/yaccpar to see how it interfaces to the rest of Eternia. I read the code to see what it's supposed to do. Then I write my own, maybe even using algorithms gleaned (sp?) from /usr/lib/yaccpar. Is my new yaccpar then mine or AT&Ts? -- Duty Now for the Future Tim Smith ihnp4!{wlbr!callan,cithep}!tim