This package was debianized by Vincent Renardias vincent@debian.org on Mon, 10 Feb 1997 01:52:36 +0100. This version was downloaded from < http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/ > Authors (from AUTHORS): Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett. Richard Stallman made it Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added multicharacter string literals and other features (Bison 1.25, 1995). Akim Demaille rewrote the parser in Bison, and changed the back end to use M4 (1.50, 2002). Paul Hilfinger added GLR support (Bison 1.50, 2002). Joel E. Denny contributed canonical-LR support, and invented and added IELR and LAC (Lookahead Correction) support (Bison 2.5, 2011). Paolo Bonzini contributed Java support (Bison 2.4, 2008). Alex Rozenman added named reference support (Bison 2.5, 2011). Paul Eggert fixed a million portability issues, arbitrary limitations, and nasty bugs. Copyright: Copyright (C) 1992, 1998-1999, 2003-2005, 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . On Debian systems, the full text of the GPL is also available at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3