On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:45:51AM +, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One suggestion: you might be able to make the necessary modifications to
BSD yacc, which I think descends from the original UNIX yacc by way of
BSD UNIX and the whole ATT vs. BSD
Scripsit Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One suggestion: you might be able to make the necessary modifications to
BSD yacc, which I think descends from the original UNIX yacc by way of
BSD UNIX and the whole ATT vs. BSD issue.
In this particular case, the modifications consist of changing the
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:45:51AM +, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One suggestion: you might be able to make the necessary modifications to
BSD yacc, which I think descends from the original UNIX yacc by way of
BSD UNIX and the whole ATT vs. BSD
Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:45:51AM +, Henning Makholm wrote
In this particular case, the modifications consist of changing the
output language from C to something else. That sounds fairly major;
the entire parsing engine would have been
Justin Pryzby wrote:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:59:06PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
Justin Pryzby wrote:
What kind of license is associated with code produced by Yacc?
Presuming this modified yacc isn't trivially replaceable with a Free
yacc, this would prevent these packages from being
Hello,
As you may recall, I am (unofficially) maintaining the IRAF data
analysis package. IRAF includes NCAR from UCAR (.. Atmospheric
Research). It was previously decided [1] that the license from NCAR
was very much not DFSG-free.
However, the NCAR routines are now available under the GPL. I
By the way,
I'm not subscribed, please Cc: me.
What kind of license is associated with code produced by Yacc?
Upstream IRAF apparently has a UNIX source license and uses a
modified yacc to produce two of the files. The source includes a
README:
This directory contains the source for
This is probably hotly debated, but how do math-algorthm copyrights
work?
There are lots of these:
== ./iraf/math/llsq/original_f/qrbd.f ==
c subroutine qrbd (ipass,q,e,nn,v,mdv,nrv,c,mdc,ncc)
c c.l.lawson and r.j.hanson, jet propulsion laboratory, 1973 jun 12
c to appear in 'solving
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:45:40PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
This is probably hotly debated, but how do math-algorthm copyrights
work?
Articles about mathematics, and specific expressions of algorithms,
are copyrightable, but the concepts aren't.
In
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:29:47PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
And this is probably the reason we have thousands of (probably
invalid) software patents instead.
Copyright law is only a minor part of that issue.
--
Raul
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:59:06PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
Justin Pryzby wrote:
What kind of license is associated with code produced by Yacc?
Presuming this modified yacc isn't trivially replaceable with a Free
yacc, this would prevent these packages from being uploadable to main.
I
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