public domain?

[gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA]

>  . the object code from a proprietary C compiler is itself proprietary.
>  . the executable binary of a C program is proprietary if it uses any of
>    the standard library functions, which are proprietary.
>  . any program written in yacc is proprietary, because the algorithms
>    output by yacc are proprietary.
>  . the proprietary ownership of all of this is good ol' Bell.

All false, with the possible exception of yacc's parser which I have
never heard declared non-proprietary by AT&T.  They have specifically
stated that C library binaries linked in with an application have a
waiver so that one may distribute them without requiring an AT&T license.
The code generated from your own sources by a compiler cannot by any
stretch of the legal imagination be considered property of the compiler
vendor.