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To: archow@hss.hns.com
Subject: Re: Regarding distribution of flex and yacc based grammars
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:50:24 +0530.
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:56:24 PST
From: Vern Paxson <vern>

> When we provide the customer with an object code distribution, is it
> necessary for us to provide source
> for the generated C files from flex and bison since they are generated by
> flex and bison ?

For flex, no.  I don't know what the current state of this is for bison.

> Also, is there any requrirement for us to neccessarily  provide source for
> the grammar files which are fed into flex and bison ?

Again, for flex, no.

See the file "COPYING" in the flex distribution for the legalese.

		Vern