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Re: bison.hairy and skeleton licenses?


From: Hans Aberg
Subject: 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






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