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     To: archow@hss.hns.com
     Subject: Re: Regarding distribution of flex and yacc based grammars
     In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:50:24 +0530.
     Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:56:24 PST
     From: Vern Paxson <vern>
     
     > When we provide the customer with an object code distribution, is it
     > necessary for us to provide source
     > for the generated C files from flex and bison since they are generated by
     > flex and bison ?
     
     For flex, no.  I don't know what the current state of this is for bison.
     
     > Also, is there any requrirement for us to neccessarily  provide source for
     > the grammar files which are fed into flex and bison ?
     
     Again, for flex, no.
     
     See the file "COPYING" in the flex distribution for the legalese.
     
     		Vern