Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!linus!raybed2!rayssd!anomaly!mpd From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Is HDB UUCP in the public domain or who owns it. Message-ID: <3978@anomaly.sbs.com> Date: 21 Oct 90 13:46:57 GMT References: <73@cscdec.cs.com> <3856@anomaly.sbs.com> Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917 Lines: 42 emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >Frankly, I don't believe it. Why would they do a thing like that? Actually, they didn't. What I've been able to piece together thusfar is as follows: Several years ago someone uploaded a pirated copy of HDBUUCP to several BBS's in the US. This source code was passed off as "a 'port' of HDBUUCP for Microport System V." What it *really* was though, was the actual AT&T source code, with all the copyright notices stripped off. -=- Apparently, this source code is still out there, working its way around the US as people mistakenly, from the file descriptions, believe it is a Microport "port". I, too, fell into this trap when someone donated the program to our XENIX archives. Luckily, several knowledgable people were able to inform us that in fact this source was *not* a port, but was in fact the program described above. Thus, we were able to quickly delete it (along with all associated backups, etc.), and inform the donor of the true nature of the program. Hopefully, as people read this, should they find a copy of this source code on any of their local BBS's, they will inform the system operator about it. -=- It is amazing though how these things get propagated. I wonder how many local BBS systems, as a result of this pirated copy being uploaded to a few BBS's, have in fact been "distributing" this copy ever since it appeared several years ago. MD -- -- Michael P. Deignan, President -- Small Business Systems, Inc. -- -- Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com -- Box 17220, Esmond, RI 02917 -- -- UUCP: ...uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd -- Telebit: +1 401 455 0347 -- -- XENIX Archives: login: xxcp, password: xenix Index: ~/SOFTLIST --