Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!eris.berkeley.edu!mwm From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <26994@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 5 Aug 89 03:45:30 GMT References:<26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5524@ficc.uu.net> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 89 In article <5524@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: , mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: <> I didn't <> mean that you had to be rich to distribute things built with <> commercial tools, but that you had to be rich to buy them. < In which case, they obviously have no problems whatsoever with the GNU <> copyleft. RMS doesn't choose to produce tools for these machines. That <> means they lose an option available to others. You think RMS should be <> forced to write for those people also? < We keep going away from the central point, <> which is that there are _lots_ of ways to make money off of copylefted <> works. Unless you choose to talk about that point, I'm going to drop <> the thread too. < Final comment: you seem to care an awful lot about the licensing <> restrictions on software you don't use. <