andrew@orca.UUCP (05/04/84)
"I also seem to recall hearing how applications written with
YACC included Unix code (in libraries?) and had to be licensed
but I forget the details. Could someone refresh my memory?"
The output from YACC includes verbatim the file /usr/lib/yaccpar, which
is considered to be part of Unix. This means that the executable
program obtained from a source written in YACC includes some of Unix
and so may be distributed only to other Unix licensees. Ditto for LEX
and /usr/lib/lex/ncform.
This information is from a two-year-old AT&T response to a written
query on this very subject. The response was unequivocal. But it's
possible that things have loosened up since then, as they seem to have
for the routines from /lib/libc.a which are loaded because of
compiler-generated calls.
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP]
(orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (05/08/84)
Ok, so we paid our $43,000 for a System V source license (ouch!).
And sent UCB $750 and got our 780 up. Now we're going to pay another
$23,000 (or whatever) for a second cpu System V source license (ouch again)
for our 750. Do we need to send UCB another $750? I hate reading contracts.
I also seem to recall hearing how applications written with YACC included
Unix code (in libraries?) and had to be licensed but I forget the details.
Could someone refresh my memory?
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!philkermit@Brl-Tgr.ARPA (05/11/84)
From: Charles Kennedy <kermit@Brl-Tgr.ARPA> I assume from your question that you really are running 4.2BSD. Why would you want to pay for System V source license twice? We have just one source license for our 780 and binary System V licenses for our 750s and other 780s. We generate kernels for both 780s and 750s on our source 780 machine and ship them over the network to install them (carried disks around the first time). -Chuck Kennedy U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab <kermit @ brl>
phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (05/14/84)
Our 750 and our 780 are in different cities and therefore it's
inconvenient to support the 750 with the 780. Besides, I like to
look at the source code. If only they were networked.
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Phil Ngai (408) 749-5286 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil