yacc: public domain?

[Ron McDaniels]

In article <305 at terak.UUCP> doug at terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>> How do I
>> know that the output of the C compiler isn't the legal property of
>> the compiler's author?
>
>In the case if C (and most other high-level languages), the output
>of the compiler isn't usually considered to be property of the
>compiler company. . . . . .

Scratch "usually". If I buy a meat grinder from you and put my steak through
it to make hamburger (assume a low quality cut :-), the hamburger doesn't become
yours just because you manufactured the meat grinder. If I make a sandwich from
the hamburger with your bread and mayo, then the sandwich isn't completely mine.

Well, it makes sense to me!! :-)


Ron McDaniels
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