joe@tikal.UUCP (Joe) (05/04/85)
Some of you may be interested in the issue of royalities for software which uses UNIX(tm) library modules or code generated by Lex and Yacc. The the April 1985 edition of "$echo", "the newsletter published by the AT&T Software Sales and Licensing organization for licensees of UNIX System V", announces a planned liberalization for the use of this software. The following is a quote from page 7. QUESTION: Is AT&T considering expanding the section in the software contract that allows the use of certain run-time libraries or files for use in customer developed application software without payment of a sublicensing fee to AT&T? ANSWER: Yes. The software contracts are being modified to read as follows: Routines from files in /lib whose pathnames end in .o or .a and from files in /usr/lib whose pathnames end in .a may be included in object-code format in customer developed applications software without payment of a sublicensing fee to AT&T. The files in /usr/lib/yaccpar, /usr/lib/lex/ncform, and /usr/lib/lex/nrform may also be included in customer developed applications software without payment of a sublicensing fee to AT&T. Joe Brady Teltone Corporation uw-beaver!tikal!joe