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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Is HDB UUCP in the public domain or who owns it.
Summary: The freely-available Uport HDB was a mistake
Message-ID: <910@iiasa.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 09:28:09 GMT
References: <73@cscdec.cs.com> <3856@anomaly.sbs.com>
Reply-To: wnp@iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul)
Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, Europe
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In article <3856@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>THE HDB uucp isn't PD. However, there have been some PD implementations
>of it. I found one such implementation from Microport, whom apparently
>developed their own source code then distributed it freely.

I am afraid that is a misconception. About three years ago there was a
tar of early HDB source code available from the Microport BBS, which
someone had sent to them and represented as PD. However, if one looked
at the files, they were obviously AT&T source, and when I and several
others pointed this out to the Customer Service people at Microport,
the tar file disappeared from the BBS. It wasn't their code, it wasn't
P.D., and it should never have been on the BBS in the first place. 

There are a number of PD and/or shareware UUCP implementations
available; none of them are specifically HDB clones, but some of them
might be a good starting point if one wanted to create such a clone.
Some examples are uupc, fsuucp, waffle, etc., and all have been posted
at one time or another to c.s.u and/or c.s.m.

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