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Re: bison.hairy and skeleton licenses?
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Hans Aberg |
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Re: bison.hairy and skeleton licenses? |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:43:57 +0200 |
At 10:11 -0400 2003/10/21, Karl Berry wrote:
>1) bison.hairy seems to have no copyright statement at all (unlike
> bison.simple). I gather bison.{hairy,simple} are no longer
> installed, so maybe this is moot. On the other hand, maybe it should
> be reinstalled just to fix the license, even if current bison doesn't
> use it, since I'm sure some installations still use it.
The bison.hairy was really a thesis work by Corbett, who write the original
Bison in the eighties. It had been broken a decade before it finally was
removed in order to make additions of new, working skeleton files easier.
So it is as dead as it can be.
Hans Aberg