1Authors of GNU Bison. 2 3Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett. 4 5Richard Stallman made it Yacc-compatible. 6 7Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added multicharacter 8string literals and other features (Bison 1.25, 1995). 9 10Akim Demaille rewrote the parser in Bison, and changed the back end to 11use M4 (1.50, 2002). 12 13Paul Hilfinger added GLR support (Bison 1.50, 2002). 14 15Joel E. Denny contributed canonical-LR support, and invented and added 16IELR and LAC (Lookahead Correction) support (Bison 2.5, 2011). 17 18Paolo Bonzini contributed Java support (Bison 2.4, 2008). 19 20Alex Rozenman added named reference support (Bison 2.5, 2011). 21 22Paul Eggert fixed a million portability issues, arbitrary limitations, 23and nasty bugs. 24 25----- 26 27Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 28 29This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler. 30 31This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 32it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 33the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 34(at your option) any later version. 35 36This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 37but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 38MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 39GNU General Public License for more details. 40 41You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 42along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 43