[comp.os.minix] Question about posting sources

paradis@acestes.UUCP (Jim Paradis) (03/10/91)

Well, I finally managed to scrape together the time to build a patch kit
that implements my port of GNU's "bash" (bourne-again shell) to MINIX.
Before I post it, I have one question:  would it be a violation of copyright
for me to post the output of "yacc" to the net?  The reason I ask is that
"bash" contains one yacc file; since I haven't yet ported bison, I just
uploaded it to an ULTRIX system at the office, yacc'ed it there, and
downloaded the results to my PC.  Was that a violation of copyright (since
the output of yacc contains source code as well as generated tables)?
Will the copyright police interrupt my slumbers at 3am? 8-) 8-) 8-)

Anyhow; I suppose I could post the kit without the y.tab.whatever files
and let folks regenerate them as they see fit, but if I can include them
then I can distribute a turnkey patch kit which should let anyone get up
and running...

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