ok@quintus (07/28/88)
I have just been slapped on the wrist for my previous posting. Not for posting the DCG translator as such, but for the form of the copyright notice. I wrote it on my own without consulting anyone at Quintus: that is *not* a "Quintus-approved" form of copyright notice. Quintus as a company has no official policy on GNU-style copyright notices. The copyright notices in the Quintus Prolog Library, for example, are just plain copyright notices. Why did I unilaterally put such a notice on DCG.PL? Well, parts of C Prolog have turned up in other Prolog systems, so it seemed likely that DCG.PL might turn up in other Prolog systems too. That's what it's *for*, of course, but given that the posting was composed and sent on Quintus time with Quintus resources, I thought it only fair that Quintus should get some credit for it, should it turn out to be useful. Also, I hoped to protect myself from rebuke. Well, _that_ didn't work. I apologise for giving the impression that Quintus use "copylefts".