GPL3 source code in xorg-server-1.6.1.901 (or not)

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Wed Jun 24 14:34:58 PDT 2009


On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Jon TURNEY wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> (The other point is questioning whether there was a technical reason for
>> the use of bison - perhaps not)
>
> We are entirely at the mercy of what autoconf decides to use for yacc on the
> machine where 'make dist' is done.  And in this case I suspect that yacc was
> just a wrapper for 'bison -y'.

fine (then we're agreed that there is no technical justification for the 
use of bison, since it's trivial to override its default choice, which 
is made for nontechnical goals).

awai

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